Quotes About Speech

You have to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

If you can not be positive then at least be quiet

Words are like seeds. When you speak something out, you give life to what you're saying.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Ah, when, within our narrow chamber The lamp with friendly lustre glows, Flames in the breast each faded ember, And in the heart, itself that knows. Then Hope again lends sweet assistance, And Reason then resumes her speech: One yearns, the rivers of existence, The very founts of Life, to reach.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

Free speech is life itself.

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

Only cowards hide behind silence.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Land, land, land, nothing remains Of the pacing, famous sea but its speech, And into its talkative seven tombs The anchor dives through the floors of a church. Goodbye, good luck, struck the sun and the moon, To the fisherman lost on the land. He stands alone at the door of his home, With his long-legged heart in his hand