Top 1200 Graduation Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.

There are jobs here in Baltimore, but the problem is we don't have skilled people. Like the Port Covington initiative - that's 20 years out. I instituted initiatives as mayor that called for equities for minorities, increase minority opportunities, training. It's a good model to duplicate. Everybody doesn't want to go to college. A lot of our vocational programs don't have the latest technology. Students should begin freshman year in high school working on a plan for graduation - either going into an apprenticeship or college.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.