Speech Quotes

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

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

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

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.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.