Speech Quotes (957 Quotes)

Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him to promote commerce, and not betray it.

Let him walk here ,on earth , bringing his dress, speech, and thoughts to a conformity with his age, his occupation, his wealth, his sacred learning, and his race.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Speech is vain and useless. O Nanak, pain and pleasure are in the power of our Lord and Master.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

fails to set forth one scintilla of evidence demonstrating that the speech it seeks to restrain creates a clear and present danger or serious and imminent threat to a protected cognizable interest.

So many people know Rick. He has had an incredible impact on so many children. It is just huge. His speech is coming back, his movement is coming back and everyone is very hopeful. Carol said she knows it will be a long road ahead and is so appreciative of the support. And the Web site is so good because it allows everyone to feel connected.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

We were not playing our best soccer and at halftime I gave the old Rudy speech. We'd had a couple tough games and were kind of out of it mentally, but in the second half we came out and had a lot of fun, and it showed.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

We shouldn't underestimate the White House's ability to win a political campaign, so to the extent that success in November is his objective, this is his announcement speech, and an important one.

The speech doesn't appear to have garnered any attention at all. His comments really weren't the focus.

I would encourage the commission to weigh heavily the First Amendment rights that we have, because that's really the fundamental thing free speech, the ability to protest, legitimate dissent in a democracy.

His speech was really focused on real estate. But then again if his comments cause some money to come out of the housing market and some money to come out of the credit market, where does it go It probably goes into the equity market.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Speech is the mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.

This particular series confuses me about what it is trying to accomplish. It's been a bad winter in Iraq, but I also don't think he has enough new to say, and it's too soon after the fall speeches.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

I'm not into the after-game speeches. I told them we have practice tomorrow.

But doctors don't know whether he'll ever be able to walk on his own or improve his speech. Right now he's at 50 to 60 percent, ... I don't think he'll ever make 100 percent. But he's going to grow and develop.

There's been so much talk about beginning to pull them home. More speeches aren't going to make much difference now. The public reacts to real events. The public's looking for something real to happen, which would be like troops withdrawing.

The market is staying alert for Muto's speech. There is no consensus on when the bank will start raising rates, and people are wondering whether he will say anything concrete about the timing.

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

Now our clients can continue doing what they do best -- writing and producing hit television shows with the knowledge that their speech is protected. The court found that the speech which the plaintiff was challenging was not directed at her and did not concern her. Quite simply, she was complaining about the back-and-forth sexual discussions of male and female writers on an adult situation comedy.

George Orwell's advice from 1946 is still worth following Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print'.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead ... That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant.

Every society, ... has to be vigilant against another type of Great Wall that can be a burden on man's talents and is born from a fear of them - a wall that limits speech, information and choices.

These speeches are an appeal to the American public. He wants to show that China's development is peaceful, that China is a responsible stake-holder.

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

Your speech, Bush, is full of lies and full of unreasonable argument,

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

He should be lucky we have freedom of speech in Canada because if we were in a country that didn't, he'd be in jail.

May there be unison in the speech and action of humans. Only by this shall, unity emerge and serve each others purpose. The nation shall emerge stronger and mightier because of this.

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

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

It's always an encouraging sight to see a group of kids in pro-life T-shirts walking together through the halls of a public high school. That puts it all together the right to life for every human being in this country is just as fundamental as the right to free speech. And that's the message we hope to send with American Life League's National Pro-life T- shirt Day.

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

Autistic children have a hard time making friends. In Molly's case, her lack of speech doesn't help. We would be encouraging people to talk to her and pet her dog.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.