Top Speech Quotes & Sayings

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

#Lovely #Speech #Become #Stop #Love Is #Superfluous

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

#Dumb #Silent #Sheep #Freedom #Washington #Speech #Taken #George #Led #Away #Slaughter

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

#Speech #Demand #Seldom #Freedom #Thought #Compensation #Supply And Demand

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

#Happy #Successful #Start #Attitude #Wish #State #Manner #Speech #Tend #Days #Affirmation #Self Confidence #Peace Of Mind #Watches

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Jimmy Durante

#Wife #Breathe #Speech #Funny #Impediment

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

#Good #Speech #Three #Communication #Prepare #Public Speaking #Impromptu

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

Dave Reichert

#Loss #Speech #Grieve #Vigorous

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stockwell Day

#Speech #Comment #Freedom #Right

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

#Speech #Goes #Irishman #Saint Patrick's Day #Day

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Aristotle

#Opinions #Speech #Generally #Impossible #Question #Divided #Credible

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Chanakya

#Rise #Speech #Desires

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Zhuangzi

#Wisdom #Small #Petty #Great #Speech #Contentious

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas

#Today #Free #Yesterday #Politics #Performance #Applaud #Speech #Impure #Hissed #Diseased

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Ann Coulter

#Speech #Letter #Hate #Riot #Accusing

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

#Speech

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

#Inspirational #Cute #Sad #Anger #Speech #Management #Regret #Anger Management

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn

#Speech #Luther #Martin #Martin Luther King #Sends

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Christopher Lasch

#Right #Speech #George

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Constantin Stanislavski

#Speech #Plane

Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.

Arun Manilal Gandhi

#Communication #Speech #Marshall