Speech Quotes - page 10

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience. (Winston Churchill)
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. View quote
Winston Churchill
The last speech, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful! View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. View quote
Aristotle
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers. View quote
Paul Goodman
The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging,” although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible. View quote
Paul Goodman
You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie. View quote
John Howard Lawson
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air. View quote
Paul
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)
No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs, many of them in college, I've gotten used to giving advice. View quote
Marc Randolph
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. View quote
Marlee Matlin
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. View quote
Marlee Matlin
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. View quote
Naomi Klein
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. View quote
Bela Lugosi
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. View quote
Gabriela Mistral
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. View quote
Dario Fo
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement. (Jackson Pearce)
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. View quote
John McGahern
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation. View quote
Etgar Keret
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. View quote
Eugenio Montale