Quotes About Speech

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

We also try not to harm others verbally, seeing that our speech has tremendous power. Words do not just leave our mouths and disappear; they have great effects in this world.

Mahabharata claims that 'if a man has one thousand tongues, lives for a hundred years and does nothing except describing the faults of woman, he will die without finishing the job').

Andrew Johnson. He had been lying rather low since the inauguration, yet he showed this evening that he had lost none of his talent for invective on short notice.

You wouldn't think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a kid with a stutter and a lisp.

You must be Pain in the Nick." – Dev "Huh?" – Nick "Don't wet your pets. Just a figure of speech. Your mom's been talking about you all day, boy. You are her favorite topic." – Dev "Well, I try hard not to be her favorite hemorrhoid." – Nick

You've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it's best not to say anything.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

My worst habit is speaking to much

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

Jefferson subsequently came to believe that Henry's speech attacking the Stamp Act had been "the dawn of the Revolution."36

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner

Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.

when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

there's an impotency Viagra can't touch - the inability of a man to speak ...

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

The mind wanders and the mouth, it seems, is more than willing to follow.

It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.