Quotes About Speech

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Don't let your tongue be your worst enemy. —John Franzese CHAPTER

Polite applause punctuated the end of the clockmaker's speech. But Passion continued to stare. Her words came before she thought to hold them back. "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin." He bent his blue gaze upon her. "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.

things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.

loudspeakers.

He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was that God was intervening in the minutiae of their lives, hanging around and helping them with their jobs or children or household chores as though He had nothing better to do. Maybe it was true... Maybe that was why there were wars and murders and earthquakes and hurricanes. God was too busy helping real estate agents find new listings to deal with those other issues.

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.

The loss of speech wasn't punishment; it was the proof Zechariah had asked for, the assurance of God's power.

The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.

You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.

This was the stuff nightmares were made of. Going to school in your Spiderman pj's. Giving a public speech naked. And discovering you'd accidentally slept with your boss.

The tongue's the sole muscle in your body that's attached at only one end.

Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

Investigate the faeries. Great. That was absolutely guaranteed to get complicated before I got any useful answers. If there was one thing faeries hated doing, it was giving you a straight answer, about anything. Getting plain speech out out of one is like pulling out teeth. Your own teeth. Through your nose.

hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.

Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left.

But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally.

It never rains," I moaned. Tera frowned at me. "It is raining now." She turned to Susan. "I do not think he is coherent." I snorted and looked around blearily. "It's a figure of speech.

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

The excessive punishment of prisoners and the use of the death penalty in the United States, alone in the developed world, have continued to fall most heavily on the poor, mentally ill, and people of color. It was on this subject that I made the best speech of my life.

In my experience... the danger of things getting out of hand is there whenever anyone opens their mouths.

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words