Speech Quotes - Page 13

• Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Men, Knack

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• Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

  Bill Vaughan

  Revenge, Taken, People

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• We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eagles, Bars, May

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• More have repented speech then silence.
  [More have repented speech than silence.]

  George Herbert

  Silence

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• And empty heads console with empty sound.

  Alexander Pope

  Sound, Empty, Console

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.356

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• I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

  Rebel Wilson

  Country, School, Years

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• I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

  Bella Heathcote

  Drama, School, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

  Raul Castro

  Church, Way, Praying

  "Castro: Pope Francis so impressive I might return to church". www.washingtonpost.com. May 10, 2015.

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• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, New York, Thinking

  "Mara Wilson: Hollywood child star turned New York storyteller". Interview with Katie Rogers, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

  Kenan Malik

  Freedom, Moving, Heart

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• Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.

  Norman Dorsen

  Education, Art, Truth

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• It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.

  Ithiel de Sola Pool

  Fighting, Power, Police

  Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  Russell Jacoby

  Cynical, Want, Outsiders

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• Free thought, free speech and a free press.

  Anne Royall

  Freedom, Free Thought, Free Press

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• Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

  Ursula Parrott

  Mean, Etiquette, Civilized

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

  Genevieve Taggard

  Giving, Joy, Singing

  Genevieve Taggard (1938). “Collected Poems: 1918-1938”

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• Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Meaningful, Important, Vacuums

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• One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Trying, Never Quit, Ever After

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• Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Winter, Weather, People

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• My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

  Charlene Weir

  Daddy, Trying, Dollars

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• Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

  Ruth Beebe Hill

  Loyalty, Mean, Self

  Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Dog, Humor

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• I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Humor, Political

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

  H. L. Mencken

  Yesterday, Politics, Afghanistan

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• Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Attitude, Book, Communication

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