Top 1200 Long Speeches Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have always felt like a fish in water with football, Fox, speeches, riding horses, and raising cattle.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich - exhausting to speak, actually.

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie and me growing up, good words to live by.

Everything Bernie Sanders says in his speeches is based on facts and is about empowering people, not making them angry.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

I really respect the work and speeches of Tony Benn. He was a powerful speaker with a huge heart.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.

I don't know how many speeches I have given saying, 'No child worse off.'

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

The government is opposed to all statements/speeches which divide the country on the basis of religion, caste, and creed.

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.'

George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

You don't see what's gone before. A lot of that can be long, long boring hours in the gym, long, long hours on the track or, for the likes of Paula Radcliffe, long hours out on the road in the rain running and running.

If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.

Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

You can go on for days naming former elected officials who are now in the private sector getting paid lots of money for speeches.

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

If you are making policies through speeches that are contradicting some of the policy development your colleagues are embarked on, you are destroying collective responsibility.

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

I have given motivational speeches at IIT and other well-known establishments. I want to appeal to the people, and therefore, I talk from the heart.

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.