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Quotes About Speech

If I wrote, 'After delivering the acceptance speech, the candidate fainted,' you would know I was talking about a woman. Men do not faint; they pass out.
~ Deborah Tannen
Waardoor ontspoorde het leven? Het begint met een stap. Begint het kwaad met een uitgesproken woord, of de adem voor het woord, of de gedachte voor de adem? Uit Voor altijd vandaag
~ Deborah Wearing
words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.
~ Dee Brown
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
~ Delta Burke
Word is a shadow of deed.
~ Democritus
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
~ Demosthenes
I'm thinking he must be a Northerner. I've never met any myself, but I'm told that when they speak the common tongue, they do it in a way that is oddly twisted.
~ Denise Domning
Words taken by lips, tongue, teeth, throat, down into body's caverns, to enter blood, bone, breath
~ Denise Levertov
She had sounded progressively more and more tipsy
~ Denise Mina
Alltid använda dina ord med st
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
One of the major regrets of life, for most people, is their yielding to the wishes of others, instead of doing what their heart desired most. Always dare to respect yourself first before anyone else, in your speech as much as in your actions. Self-respect is the precursor to Success.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
~ Zig Ziglar
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
~ Aristotle
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
~ Proverbs
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
~ Franz Grillparzer
You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
~ Elizabeth I
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
~ Gautama Buddha
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
~ William Cobbett
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
~ William Wordsworth
Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!
~ Paula White