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Quotes About Speech

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
~ Solomon
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
~ Michael Chabon
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
~ Éliphas Lévi
Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be "perfect" men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
The original Constitution, as amended by the Bill of Rights, includes many themes that would apply to society as it evolves over time, freedom of speech, press, and religion, and due process of law, most notably. And equality imbued the Declaration of Independence although the stain of slavery kept that ideal out of the Constitution until 1868.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
What comes out of your mouth comes in to your life.
~ Jen Sincero
Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.
~ Jennifer Archer
But words are more powerful than anything.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you can go round saying them
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Venom can be drawn from flesh, but poisoned words lodge deep in our hearts, where no antidote can reach.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Let me get this straight.Your lunchroom speech went a little something like this." I put my hands out on front of me like I was a Roman Orator enunciating for the crowd. "I, Nick Krieger,defender of women, would never denounce the crotch. I am above the crotch.
~ Jennifer Echols
And I wasn't buying it. Nick, standing up for me? "Let me get this straight. Your lunchroom speech went a little something like this." I put my hands out in front of me like I was a Roman orator enunciating for the crowd. "I, Nick Krieger, defender of women, would never denounce the cotch. I am above the crotch.
~ Jennifer Echols
Eddie had never noticed how much of his own speech derived from the sea, from "keeled over" to "learning the ropes" to "catching the drift" to "freeloader" to "gripe" to "brace up" to "taken aback" to "leeway" to "low profile" to "the bitter end," or the very last link on a chain.
~ Jennifer Egan
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
~ Elmore Leonard
Well, say I promise I won't speak: but that does not bind me not to laugh at him!
~ Emily Bronte
I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
~ Emily Dickinson
A WORD is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.
~ Emily Dickinson
Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
~ Emma Donoghue
But as to free speech," he remarked, "that is, of course, a bourgeois notion. There can be no free speech in a revolutionary period. We
~ Emma Goldman
she tried to say it. But she didn't get any further than 'Kollamooli'. Nor did the others.
~ Enid Blyton
Don't feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.
~ Eoin Colfer