Top 1200 Figures Of Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on October 18, 2024.
The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.
Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.
I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
I realised that you could get into trouble with a dull speech.
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.
Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.
Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
I have grown up in a country where we are told that there is freedom of speech.
People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.
Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
As actors, you are social figures, and you are setting an example for people to follow, so I feel very blessed that my work has allowed me to influence people in some way.
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.
We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?
A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
My Hall of Fame speech was about respect for the game.
I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.
We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.
There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'
Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!
Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.
I know we're public figures, but I strongly believe my private life should remain private. What ultimately matters and concerns the world is the work we leave behind.
