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Quotes About Speaking

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.
~ Jessica Chastain
I speak to women's groups, Chambers of Commerce, manufacturing organizations. Just did the Mike Huckabee Show. I do about two speaking engagements a month. I still enjoy travelling.
~ John Ratzenberger
Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.
~ Philip Moeller
Women prefer speaking to talking.
~ Raheel Farooq
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
~ Jean Kerr
The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
~ Paul Robeson
Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.
~ Kirsten Powers
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
~ Thomas Jefferson
This sort of absurd subterfuge, and this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
~ Thomas Paine
You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.
~ Thornton W. Burgess
My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.
~ Boots Riley
Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there's a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh.
~ Mazie Hirono
As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
~ Anohni
What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.
~ Orson Scott Card
A speaking, a crisis, people's lives in tatters, the future of the colony in doubt. And I cry in relief because an overblown computer program is speaking to me again
~ Orson Scott Card
Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.
~ Dale Carnegie
Practise, practise, PRACTISE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practise in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
~ Dale Carnegie
Observe Nature, study her laws, and obey them in your speaking.
~ Dale Carnegie
Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
~ Dale Carnegie
Enough - the Centenarian's story ends; The two, past and present, have interchanged; I myself, as connector, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
~ Walt Whitman
One must apply the greatest artistry in three things," Alberti wrote, "walking in the city, riding a horse, and speaking, for in each of these one must try to please everyone."12 Leonardo mastered all three.
~ Walter Isaacson
The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well.
~ Jane Yolen
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there.
~ D. L. Moody (1837–1899)