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Quotes About Speech

Tous les discours n'avancent point les choses; il faut faire et non dire, et les effets décident mieux que les paroles.
~ Moliere
He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
~ Moliere
Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.
~ Monica Ali
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
~ Unknown
We have freedom of the press; I think it's guaranteed in the Constitution or something."   The
~ Morgan Llywelyn
Conscious symbolism governed medieval representation. Grammar, for instance, was pictured as an old woman with a knife and file to operate on students' mistakes. Rhetoric was an imposing woman whose dress was ornamented with the figures of speech.
~ Unknown
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~ Mother Teresa
Only the perfect man can teach in silence, because he has reached it, and therefore he alone can stimulate it in others. He speaks through the silence infinitely more potently than through any human language. But those who are not yet Jivanmuktas naturally prefer to use speech and pen.
~ Mouni Sadhu
If you are mighty and powerful, then gain respect through knowledge and through your gentleness of speech. Don't order things except as it is fitting. The one who provokes others gets into trouble. Don't be haughty lest you be humbled. But also, don't be mute lest you be chided.
~ Unknown
Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft.
~ Unknown
The practice of the Shedy disciplines leads to knowing oneself and the Divine. This is called being True of Speech
~ Unknown
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
~ Muriel Spark
Thus, the well-known theme of "separation of Church and State" was but one of many interrelated motifs that could be summed up as "separation of the economy from the State," "separation of speech and press from the State," "separation of land from the State," "separation of war and military affairs from the State," indeed, the separation of the State from virtually everything
~ Murray N. Rothbard
The poor man has sold his freedom of expression to the state.
~ Unknown
The refraining of freedom of speech from the governmental system can cause its citizens to turn into narcissists in their free time.
~ Unknown
You can still get away with the speech, but the face reveals as much as it conceals.
~ Unknown
Your hands can feed you while your mouth can kill you if you let your tongue run wild in front of your enemies.
~ Unknown
This is why it's so important to have a constant diet of the Word of God, so that it will get down into your heart. It will nourish your heart so that, when you experience troubles, the Word is what will come out of your mouth, and you will create what the Word says.
~ Myles Munroe
Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and praise of that creation for its Creator into love, speech, and conscious obedience.
~ Unknown
What I want to suggest, with great temerity, is that in the resurrection one is given the beginning of a new knowing, a new epistemology, a new coming-to-speech, the Word born afresh after the death of all human knowing and speech, all human hope and love, after the silent rest of the seventh-day sabbatical in the tomb. I
~ Unknown
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.
~ Nadine Gordimer
More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do." —2011 UN Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of National, Racial, or Religious Hatred
~ Unknown
If she could've found the will power to speak, the brain cells to construct thought, she would've told Clay he was a god. It was a good thing she was too wiped out or he would never let her forget it
~ Nalini Singh
And Laura raised the microphone and said, "Hello, everybody, I'm C.C's daughter.
~ Unknown