Quotes About Speech

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

It's the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.

Without free speech there is no true thought.

If you pay attention to what you do and say, you can learn to feel a state of internal division and weakness when you are misbehaving and misspeaking. It's an embodied sensation, not a thought.

The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good.

if there are things that upset you, chaotic, terrible, serpentine monstrous underworld things that threaten you, the best thing to do is to open your eyes, get your speech organized, and go out and confront the thing, and make the world out of it

At the beginning of time, according to the great Western tradition, the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. It is axiomatic, within that tradition, that man and woman alike are made in the image of that God. We also transform chaos into Being, through speech. We transform the manifold possibilities of the future into the actualities of past and present. To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being.

It's the speech people engage in when they attempt to influence and manipulate others. It's what university students do when they write an essay to please the professor, instead of articulating and clarifying their own ideas. It's what everyone does when they want something, and decide to falsify themselves to please and flatter. It's scheming and sloganeering and propaganda.

my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

Az orvos csak annyit tud, hogy szépen beszél meg rondán ír.

Hay a quien la palabra libertad no se le cae de la boca, pero la entienden como el derecho que ellos tienen a ejercerla. La censuran a los demás cuando no les conviene que salgan a la luz determinadas cosas.

Sin libertad de pensamiento, la libertad de expresión no tiene ningún valor

Da grima escuchar las inepcias que a toda hora se dicen.

Ay! tal me ha sucedido siempre en los momentos más dolorosos de mi vida. Mi lengua, asaz habladora, enmudece cuando mi corazón estalla en sentimientos.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

There is a weird power in a spoken word…. And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

A Pronoun is a word used for or instead of a noun to keep us from repeating the same noun too often. Pronouns, like nouns, have case, number, gender and person. There are three kinds of pronouns, personal, relative and adjective.

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Some of the old similes which have outlived their usefulness and should be pensioned off, are "Sweet as sugar," "Bold as a lion," "Strong as an ox," "Quick as a flash," "Cold as ice," "Stiff as a poker," "White as snow," "Busy as a bee," "Pale as a ghost," "Rich as Croesus," "Cross as a bear" and a great many more far too numerous to mention.

Horace, fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?" He paused, and then translated. "Whom have flowing cups not made eloquent?