Quotes About Speech

The noble minded act before speak, then they speak according to their actions.

Listen to all that you can – then, if you forget the deficiencies and speak about the rest cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and act upon the rest cautiously, you'll avoid regret. In speech avoid trouble, in action avoid regret – then rewards will come of themselves.

Avant d'ouvrir la bouche, assure-toi que ce que tu vas dire est plus beau que le silence.

Do it on the radio." —Educating Rita Saved

The unconscious system of guidance is millions of years old, speech less than a hundred thousand. The brain had no idea any of this was coming. The unconscious must have had to do all sorts of scrambling around to accommodate a system that proved perfectly relentless. Not only it is comparable to a parasitic invasion, it's not comparable to anything else.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.

Letzte Worte sind auch nur Worte.

Dear friends, respected colleagues!" Nikonov said. "Three minutes ago Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America and I congratulate you on this."1 Even though Nikonov did not add what many in the Kremlin already knew, his brief statement was greeted by enthusiastic applause. Donald J. Trump had just become Vladimir Putin's man in the White House.

Art-speech is the only truth.

For him, it was not yet quite natural to express himself in speech. Gesture and grimace were instantaneous, and spoke worlds of things, if you would but accept them.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Cut out modifiers. Cut out connectives. Begin with words that demand attention. "End with words that deserve distinction," says Prof. Barrett Wendell.

So, she merely remarked that it would make an excellent article for the North American Review. In other words, she praised it and at the same time subtly suggested that it wouldn't do as a speech. Lyman Abbott saw the point

I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. – Dianna Booher

Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back!

If I talked, I might cry.

Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.

he can make every word he speaks draw blood

Expression of speech .. in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive, That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words, That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

What living and buried speech is vibrating here... what howls restrained by decorum...