Top 1200 Long Speeches Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

My life was taken up by road shows, election rallies and campaign speeches. I was clocking four to five hours of sleep every day.

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

Sen. McCain isn't someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn't seem to like the formality of giving speeches. He clearly isn't too comfortable reading off a TelePrompter.

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

It's very interesting how Washington works. It's not about speeches. It's about relationships.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.

In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

I had the Secret Service actually patrolling my block at some point. I didn't sign up for that. I went to work to write speeches for Barack Obama!

It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that's how you follow. Speeches don't work.

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

I am not a guy who can write speeches and when I speak I speak from the heart, I just say what I feel and what I believe in.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.