Quotes About Speech

A drunkard's words are gone by the next dawn.

The wounds of fire would have gone with the time but not the wounds caused by words

Even the tiny frog is spoilt by its mouth

It's a fine line, but one that can, and must, be walked. Calling attention to, challenging, and educating the public about objectionable ideas or people is a fundamental necessity in our society. When we begin, however, to demand the silencing of someone because we're offended by his or her opinion, we've crossed the line.

Political correctness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Communion in faith, in the intimacy of meaning, cannot remain purely conceptual; it can maintain its vivifying energy only if it associates with communion in speech and action within a common space of social and cultural references. Faith needs culture.

Holinshed again. The one that inspired Shakespeare's famous speech.

When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force. I speak, therefore I am.

Verba volant, scripta manent. In Tiv you would say, 'Spoken words fly away, written words remain.

My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech. It wouldn't be transcribed in the form of words arranged linearly, but as a giant ideogram, to be absorbed as a whole.

our every utterance will reduce the amount of air left for thought and bring us closer to the moment when our thoughts cease altogether. Will it be preferable to remain mute to prolong our ability to think, or to talk until the very end? I don't know.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force.

My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech.

Speaking this language would be out of the question, given the limited bandwidth of the human larynx.

No es ninguna coincidencia que <> signifique al mismo tiempo tener esperanza y el acto de respirar. Cuando hablamos, usamos el aliento de nuestros pulmones para darle a nuestros pensamientos una forma física. Los sonidos que emitimos son simultáneamente nuestras intenciones y nuestra fuerza vital. Hablo, Luego soy.

No es ninguna coincidencia que aspiración signifique al mismo tiempo tener esperanza y el acto de respirar. Cuando hablamos, usamos el aliento de nuestros pulmones para darle a nuestros pensamientos una forma física. Los sonidos que emitimos son simultáneamente nuestras intenciones y nuestra fuerza vital. Hablo, luego soy

Ultimately, communication is a reflection of the heart. "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).

Behavior is a manifestation of what is going on inside. What a person says or does mirrors the heart. "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).

If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.