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

Quotes by Zhuangzi

Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Quotes by Yanni

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

Quotes by William Jennings Bryan

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

Quotes by Wayne Rogers

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Quotes by Warren E. Burger

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

Quotes by Tom Smothers

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.

Quotes by Tobias Lutke

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

Quotes by Tobe Hooper

Speech is civilization itself.

Thomas Mann

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

Quotes by Thomas Lennon

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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.

Quotes by Thomas Goodwin

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

Quotes by Thiruvalluvar

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Quotes by Susan Griffin

Speech is the mirror of action.

Quotes by Solon

When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.

Quotes by Simon Singh

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

Quotes by Shane Leslie

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents.

Quotes by Sean Berdy

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

Quotes by Scott Peters

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Quotes by Samuel Alito

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

Quotes by Salman Rushdie

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

Quotes by Saint Ignatius

My Hall of Fame speech was about respect for the game.

Quotes by Ryne Sandberg

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

Quotes by Ronald Kessler

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

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

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

Quotes by Richard Sherman

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Quotes by Richard Masur

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Quotes by Richard Griffiths

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Quotes by Ralph Richardson

I saw Adrien Brody's Oscar speech and was moved to tears.

Quotes by Rahul Dev

Unless you’re Barack Obama, you cannot pull off an impromptu a capella rendition of a heart-warming song in the middle of a speech.

Quotes by Rachel Parris

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Quotes by Queen Rania of Jordan

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Quotes by Pranab Mukherjee

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Quotes by Pope Francis

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Quotes by Plutarch

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

Quotes by Phil Klay

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Quotes by Peter Hermann

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

Quotes by Pete Hoekstra

A great speech is literature.

Quotes by Peggy Noonan

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Quotes by Peggy Noonan

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

Quotes by Paul Haggis

Citizens United was no victory for free speech.

Quotes by Patrick Murphy

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

Quotes by Patrick Chappatte

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Quotes by Patrick Campbell

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

Quotes by Pat Sajak

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Quotes by Ovid

I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

Quotes by Olivia Colman

Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit consent has demoralized weakened minds.

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

Quotes by Nong Duc Manh

As all Members of Parliament know, the ease and flow of making a speech outside the House is not at all the same as that required in the Chamber.

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Quotes by Neal Boortz

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

Quotes by Muriel Humphrey

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

Quotes by Michael Caine

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

Quotes by Max Eastman

I am bipolar, and I am a full manifestation of it in terms of my speech, in terms of my energy.

Quotes by Mauro Ranallo

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

Quotes by Marvin Ammori

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Mahatma Gandhi

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Quotes by Mahavira

Speech happens to not be his language.

Quotes by Madame de Stael

You can have a five-page speech, and if the camera's not looking at you, you're not there.

Quotes by Lynn Cohen

I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.

Quotes by Lynn Collins

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Quotes by Loretta Swit

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

Quotes by Lindy Booth

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Quotes by Leo McKern

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

Quotes by Laura Loomer

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Quotes by Lady Starlight

Donald Trump has a curious understanding of what freedom of speech means.

Quotes by Kirsten Powers

Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.

Quotes by Kirsten Powers

I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably wouldn't have noticed, stressed over magnet school applications three years before they're due.

Quotes by Kim Brooks

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Quotes by Kenneth Rexroth

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Quotes by Kenneth Grahame

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Quotes by Kenneth Anger

I try to ask a question rather than give a speech.

Quotes by Katie Porter

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Quotes by Kathleen Troia McFarland

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Quotes by Jules Feiffer

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

Quotes by Jon Lovett

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

Quotes by John Wesley Powell

The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

Quotes by John Quelch

While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.

Quotes by John Paul Stevens

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

Quotes by John Millington Synge

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

Quotes by John McWhorter

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

Quotes by John Leo

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

Quotes by John J. McLaughlin

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

Quotes by John Dos Passos

Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.

Quotes by John Dickerson

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Quotes by Johann Most

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