Speech Quotes - Page 24

• You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

  Martha Graham

  Storm, Technique, Adequate

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

  George Eliot

  Grateful, Writing, Doe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.247

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• A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Ideas, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.241, Graphic Arts Books

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• A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Men, White Man

  Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

  Jack Kornfield

  Party, Heart, Gossip

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

  Henry Bromell

  Music, Heart, People

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• The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Government, Freedom Of Speech, Sound

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" by Baruch Spinoza, (Ch. 20), 1677.

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• There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

  Francois Hollande

  Freedom, Attachment, People

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• I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, Savages, Violent

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• It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, America, Tradition

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton are married, so under the law, paying him for a speech is like giving money directly to her [Hillary Clinton] - to the Secretary of State. I cannot think of a comparable 'pay to play' scandal.

  Tom Fitton

  Thinking, Law, Play

  "Medical Bill: Mystery donor picked up $150G tab for 2010 Clinton speech" by Malia Zimmerman, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2015.

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• One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

  Aziz Ansari

  Men, Drunk, Goal

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". TV Series "Parks and Recreation" ("Andy and April's Fancy Party", 2011), 2009-2015.

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• Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

  Rickey Henderson

  Ties, Necks, Kind

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• I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

  Karen Morley

  Giving, Sitting, Enjoy

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• If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

  Lawrence Bender

  Tears, President, Looks

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• I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Thinking, Racism

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

  Sunny Leone

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Ugly

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• The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview with Alvin Toffler, reprints.longform.org. January 1964.

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• I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

  Oliver Sacks

  Writing, Quality, Goes On

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His speeches were all about hope and prosperity - he ran on a platform of peace and prosperity. Hitler speeches that makes him sound like a villain are pretty hard to find, he was very detached from what he was doing, he kept himself compartmentalised from it.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Thinking, Sound, Prosperity

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is the power to maintain insight alive in every moment, so that every speech, every word, every act will bear the nature of that insight. It is a question of cleaning. And you clean better if you are surrounded by those who are practicing exactly the same.

  Nhat Hanh

  Strong, Buddhism, Practice

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, People, Giving

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

  Octavia Spencer

  Heartbroken, Writing, Use

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, People, Missing

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• [A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Responsibility, Goal, Purpose

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