Quotes and Sayings About Speech
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
-- Adi Shankara -
Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
-- Aeschylus -
Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.
-- Afonso Van-Dunem -
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
-- Alain Robert -
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
-- Alan Bullock -
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
-- Alan Lightman -
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
-- Alasdair Gray -
For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
-- Alice Hamilton -
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
-- Amelia Barr -
Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.
-- Andre Norton -
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
-- Anna Kamienska -
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
-- Anna Quindlen -
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
-- Anthony Kennedy
