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Quotes About Speech

A Christian's speech should bless, not berate or abuse. The tongue betrays the world that is in one's heart; it is a microcosm of the inner self.
~ Richard J. Foster
It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.
~ Richard Kadrey
Never by any possibility must the minister's speech become a rival to his subject; that were to dishonor Christ, and not to glorify him.
~ Richard Lischer
What good, after all, do these two things do the man, who both admits that what has been said is true, and has high praise for the speech it has been said in, and still does not yield that full assent,
~ Richard Lischer
Individuals who are hard of hearing are those in whom the sense of hearing, although defective, is functional either with or without a hearing aid. For these persons, the use of a hearing aid is frequently necessary or desirable to enhance residual hearing (Owens & Farinella, 2019). The extent to which persons with hearing impairment have difficulty developing speech and language is heavily influenced by the degree of hearing loss.
~ Richard M. Gargiulo
A prelingual hearing loss occurs prior to the development of speech and language while a postlingual impairment refers to a hearing loss manifesting itself after the acquisition of speech and language.
~ Richard M. Gargiulo
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
~ Richard M. Nixon
There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history—the most fascinating subject I know.
~ Richard Norton Smith
Proklamation ließ er sie zurück und machte sich wieder
~ Richard P. Heitzenrater
Expression requires freedom. It seems to me that no matter what you say in this world, someone will be offended.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Richard Reeves
~ R. C. Hoiles
Oliver Cromwell's words in dismissal of the Long Parliament: 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.
~ Richard Toye
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.
~ Richard Trumka
Der Gesang ist die in höchster Leidenschaft erregte Rede: die Musik ist die Sprache der Leidenschaft.
~ Richard Wagner
As the mayor of Chicago told a labor rally on May Day in 1867, eight hours of work had become more exhausting than ten or twelve hours had been earlier.
~ Richard White
How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.
~ Richelle Mead
let's learn and note The art of politics. Let's teach you how to miss the boat And how to drop some bricks, And how to win the people's vote And lots of other tricks. Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.
~ Roald Dahl
Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.
~ Roald Dahl
That speech (Daniel Webster's) "raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
~ Robert A. Caro
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
No, I hadn't made any decision; my mouth was leading its own life.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
his slot was given by his lifemate Perry Jarnell, who took six minutes. At that point his audio and video both cut out. After that, even the most pompous speakers quickly figured out that if they hadn't gotten it said within five minutes, Merril wasn't going to let them keep trying.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Balaam in his wrath hardly seems to notice the miraculous gift of speech but responds as though he were accustomed to having daily domestic wrangles with his asses
~ Robert Alter