Speech Quotes - Page 36

• I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

  Dana Gould

  Dog, Middle

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Oct 06, 2012

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• Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

  Andy Kindler

  White, People, Challenges

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• I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.

  Felipe Esparza

  Home, Giving, Mexican

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• Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

  Bonar Law

  Drunk, Sober

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• [A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Communication, Mean, Snapshots

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• Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Race, Wings

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• The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

  Wayne Grudem

  Taken, Thinking, Expression

  Vern S. Poythress, Wayne A. Grudem (2004). “The TNIV and the Gender-neutral Bible Controversy”, B & H Academic

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• The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sight, Names, Firsts

  Thomas Hobbes (2012). “Leviathan”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

  Horace

  Men, Law, Judging

  Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

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• As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Opinion, Proportion

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar”, p.23

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• The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job!

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Fighting, Hands

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• Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

  Felix Frankfurter

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Enlightenment

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• Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Language, Intimate

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• College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, College, Inquiry

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• One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

  Tommy Lasorda

  Kids, Player, Games

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Q&A, www.presstelegram.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political correctness. Speech censorship. They hate opposition and they'll do anything they can to eliminate it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Two, Political

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• I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

  Judith Curry

  Climate, Debate, University

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• Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political, Flags, Behind You

  "Bernie Sanders on politics, Clinton and guns". Interview with Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Eyeglasses, Judging

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed, he gives a speech after the San Bernardino attack where his approach is to try to go after the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens rather than to keep us safe.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Rights, Law

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Men, Talking

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

  Bocafloja

  Community, Doe, Today

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

  Grace Paley

  People, Interesting, Energy

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• Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Action, Eloquence

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