Top 1200 Great Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

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

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.

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

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

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

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

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

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

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

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

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

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

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

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

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

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

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

Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

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

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

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

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

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

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

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.

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.

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

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

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

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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

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

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

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.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

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