Speech Quotes - Page 17

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out