Top 1200 Motivational Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am partial to thrillers but if somebody gives me a script like 'King's Speech' to do, I would love to do it too.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room.

It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

No single platform can sensibly prevent all hateful, illegal or threatening speech - it can only act in due time to remove it.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

It saddens me that in many churches today, you hardly hear the name of Jesus being mentioned. Instead, you hear psychology being taught. You hear motivational teachings. You hear 'doing, doing, doing', 'vision, vision, vision' or 'calling, calling, calling'. You hear very little of Jesus Christ and His finished work being taught. Is this what Christianity is about? Your doing, your calling and your vision?

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign .

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're gonna get burned at the stake.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.