Quotes About Speech

Maybe speech has been an evolutionary mistake; maybe everybody would get along better if we couldn't talk to each other.

It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself — like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Talking was such an embarrassment; she never knew what to say.

The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.

Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in order to produce all the sounds of a language.

In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.

Le déplacement debout semble avoir, sinon entraîné, du moins permis d'autres aspects importants de l'évolution humaine : la réorganisation du crâne avec une augmentation du volume du cerveau, la libération de la main débarrassée de la locomotion et peut-être même l'apparition de la parole.

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court, or to the principal, when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

In words are seen the state of mind, character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

He was also, according to his file, "a first-rate scientist partial to beer," the kind of mind Control had seen before. It needed dulling to slow it down or to distance itself from the possibility of despair. Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality of speech versus the originality of thought. An ongoing battle.

The implications of this speech were not long in coming. On 22 September, emulating the brilliant Israeli gambit of the Six Day War in 1967, Iraqi aircraft pounded ten airfields in Iran in an attempt to destroy the Iranian air force on the ground. This failed, but the next day Iraqi forces crossed the border in strength and advanced into Iran in three simultaneous thrusts along a front of some 400 miles (644 km).

Those most beset by commands are children. It is a miracle that they ever survive the pressure and do not collapse under the burden of the commands laid on them by their parents and teachers. That they in turn, and in equally cruel form, should give identical commands to their children is as natural as mastication or speech.

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day." He

People are mistaken if they believe that the only choice is between silence and speech. One silence can hide another.

The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Delivered by

Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silent where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.