Quotes About Speech

Pouchkine était son père spirituel. Pouchkine domina la vie littéraire de Dostoïevski du début à la fin. C'est pour lui, l'idole littéraire de sa jeunesse, que le romancier prit pour la dernière fois la parole en public. En 1880, à l'occasion de l'inauguration du monument Pouchkine, Dostoïevski prononça un discours qui eut un immense retentissement dans toute la Russie.

Language is not just a system for talking and reading. Talking and reading reflect the cognitive elaborations brought into the brain by language.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

Ä°fade özgürlüÄŸü bir mitten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

Hablar es recorrer un hilo. Escribir, en cambio, es poseerlo, devanarlo.

Parler c'est parcourir un fil. Écrire c'est au contraire le posséder, le démêler.

Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.

Berghuis, the Court ruled that the same is true of the right to remain silent. Simply put, a person is not protected by the right to remain silent unless he or she knows to say and actually says something as explicit as "I wish to assert my right to remain silent.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

This is what I say: "Leave me alone!" This is how it comes out: "Leefmaown.

Speech. Do not speak ill of others. A knight does not spread news that he does not know to be certain, or condemn things that he does not understand.

I often find that when I fall into the trap of speaking too harshly, it is because I don't have enough confidence in the power of my own voice to carry sufficient strength on its own. When you realize that your speech can be powerful, you don't need to amplify that power by making personal attacks that overgeneralize the specific feedback you are trying to give.

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

God uses language to create and command us.

Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Your speech so halting and unguarded is the only thing left with which to content myself. But the accent is changed, the colour is different.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind

Put your currency where your oral cavity is.