Speech Quotes - Page 4

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.You have never spoken before.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.

Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.

He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human speech and the deep bend it cut in it. Nor had he thought that a word spoken boldly and loudly, with no hint of false shame, but rather with courage, that this word would not drown in the ugly cries of fashionable satyrs but would plunge like a pearl into the abyss of public life and always find itself a shell.Many stumble over a good word, blushing in embarrassment, and utter a careless word boldly and loudly, never suspecting that it, too, unfortunately, will not go for naught but will leave a long trail of often times ineradicable evil.p. 296

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

You can say the same thing nicely.

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s slower, and maybe what’s happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it’s gotten to the point where I can’t hear between the beats anymore and it’s just a hum.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean threatening the freedom of others.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

We live at the level of our language.

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, 'twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —The Racket shamed me so —And if it had not been so far —And any one I knewWere going — I had often thoughtHow noteless — I could die —

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.