Speech Quotes - Page 7

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

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

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

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.

I am speechless: I have no speech

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.