Quotes About Speech

The wretched of the earth get no help from witch doctors, and when academic language gets beyond shouting distance of ordinary speech, voodoo is all it is.

Her cackled speech began like dry branches crackling on a fire. Then, one by one, someone threw fireworks into the flames. It was surprising that such a colorless woman could bang and whoosh and kerplonk with such splendor. We were all exhausted when she finished, and enjoyed the brief silence.

The parallel, rather, is with human language. It is human to have the ability to speak, an essential part of the image of God in us. Nonetheless, concrete language, which exists in countless forms, is not native but acquired; it is learned.

Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

what we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

There is a time to be silent. There is a time to talk for your life.

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One of the priests says, 'Madam, she is very holy person. Her speech is inspired.' 'Get her out of my way,' Anne says. 'Lightning will strike you,' the nun tells Henry. He laughs uncertainly. Norfolk erupts into the group, teeth clenched, fist raised. 'Drag her back to her whorehouse, before she feels this, by God!

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?

From his [Nestor's] tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Speaking, he addressed her with winged words.

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

am fully convinced that it is impossible for a woman, even if she were born close to a throne, to acquire before the age of five-and-twenty the encyclopaedic knowledge of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring, the important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring, the angelic bedevilments and innocent cunning, the speech and the silence, the seriousness and the banter, the wit and the obtuseness, the diplomacy and the ignorance which make up the perfect lady.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.