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Quotes About Speech

Oh, yes, you can sin with your tongue! David knew this and took special steps to keep himself from that kind of sin. He knew how serious God is about the damage and destruction the tongue can do. He obviously passed this knowledge along to his son, Solomon, because in Proverbs 6, Solomon wrote: These six
~ Robert Morris
Authoritarians are content to forbid people from speaking truths; totalitarians feel they must take the further step of compelling people to speak falsehoods.
~ Robert P. George
But he was saying, '--and so I'm not going to make any speech--' In his old voice, his own voice. Or was that his voice? Which was his true voice, which one of all the voices, you would wonder.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The monkey said, "Bad. Bad, shitty bad.
~ Robert Reed
Her tongue could kill at twenty paces.
~ Robert Rodi
The weakest punches are thrown with the tongue.
~ Robert Sharenow
I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.
~ L.J. Smith
Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't — it's firmly fastened at one end.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.
~ L.M. Montgomery
More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Bill Maher, on a program called Politically Incorrect said "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building—say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher was fired and the program was terminated. Some portion of the media should have risen up in outrage, not necessarily to defend Maher and get him his job back, but in defense of speaking the truth. They did not.
~ Larry Beinhart
I live in Hollywood where truth is a speech defect.
~ Larry Beinhart
Now speech had left her; fear took its place.
~ Larry McMurtry
Silence is also speech. -Silerian Proverb The bitter heart eats it's owner. -Kintish Proverb Only one thing is better than learning an enemy is dead: learning that he is in Sileria. -Valdani Proverb
~ Laura Resnick
want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You listened so you would learn; you thought so that your answer would not return to humiliate or harm you, because, in Paulie's world, once something was said it could not be called back or explained away.
~ Laurence Shames
Every man speaks of the fair as his own market has gone in it.
~ Laurence Sterne
Every man speak of the fair as his own market has gone in it.
~ Laurence Sterne
The cops say that thing:'anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone make such a hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I learned then that words had such power some must never be spoken and was thus robbed of both tongue and the truth.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. —Benjamin Franklin, 1722
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
THE SUFFRAGETTES FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO SPEAK. THEY WERE ATTACKED, ARRESTED, AND THROWN IN JAIL FOR DARING TO DO WHAT THEY WANTED. LIKE THEY WERE, I AM WILLING TO STAND UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE. NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO GIVE SPEECHES. I CHOOSE TO STAY SILENT.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
she sounded like Lizbeth Scott in those Bogart movies. I've always wished I had a voice
~ Lawrence Block
DüÅŸünürün görevi düÅŸünceler ileri sürmektir, oysa azizin iÅŸi susmak, bulduÄŸu ÅŸeyi söylememektir.
~ Lawrence Durrell