Quotes About Speech

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

Freedom of expression does not give you the right to disrespect others.

Freedom of expression does not judge its own opinion."

Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie.

?nsanlar elimizdeki özgürlü?ün, harekete geçme de?il, sadece konu?ma ve hayal kurma özgürlü?ü oldu?unun fark?nda de?il.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The premise of the session is a short speech: "Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

The conversations rests uneasily; one doesn't expect good-byes to be burdened by such trivialities. This is not how it is in the books, he thinks, or in the theater, and he feels the need to speak of mission, of duty, of love. They reach home and close the door and he doesn't drop her hand. Where speech fails, touch compensates.

Parce que le mot à leurs yeux ne devient vraiment gros que lorsqu'on l'écrit, on s'en "branle" à l'oral, on s'en "bat les couilles à longueur de journée, on "nique ta mère" à tire larigot. Mais trouver le mot "couille" ou le verbe "branler" et "niquer" noir sur blanc, dans un livre, quand leur place est sur les murs des toilettes, alors ça...

a visiting congressman from Ohio. Inspired by the

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

Speech is oft repented, silence never

L'accent, c'est l'émotion d'une langue.

I remember when I left Hungary," Zoltan said, "understanding so completely that literature could save me as much as it could get me killed. Of course it's not like that here. But isn't it funny, that in some ways the price one pays for freedom of speech is ... a kind of indifference.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.

Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.

At the heart of any language, then, is the poetic productivity of expressive speech. A living language is continually being made and remade, woven out of the silence by those who speak.… And this silence is that of our wordless participations, of our perceptual immersion in the depths of an animate, expressive world.

Govor nam je potreban koliko i vazduh koji udišemo, jer se govorom osloba?amo pritiska nerealizovanih misli, pri?a i re?enica. ?utanje može da ubije - i onoga koji ?uti, kao i onoga koji sluša.

Imagine , they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you .