Quotes About Speech

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.

Vincent van Gogh, for one, wrote that his exuberant mood propelled not just his art but his speech: There are moments, he said, when I am twisted by enthusiasm or madness or prophecy, like a Greek oracle on the tripod. And then I have great readiness of speech.)

Tommy stood on a chair and made a speech of welcome; then Billy had to respond. "The war has changed us all," he said. "I remember when people used to say the rich were put on this earth by God to rule over us lesser people." That was greeted by scornful laughs. "Many men were cured of that delusion by fighting under the command of upper-class officers who should not have been put in charge of a Sunday school outing." The other veterans nodded knowingly.

They want you to scare those middling people by violence and rioting. That will get people worrying about the need to maintain order, and stop them thinking about freedom of speech.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

Mira Grant, Blackout

The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That's the irony.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.