Top 1200 Figures Of Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

I've always wanted to do some kind of merchandising/clothing line/action figures because I know the fan base that I have are very loyal and dedicated, and they've always loved the action figures and other merchandise.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

The viewing figures for 'Lost' were huge. I don't think the viewing figures for 'The 100' are up there with 'Lost'; hopefully, they will be.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.

To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.

One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.

The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.

The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.