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Speech Quotes (page 23)

Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided? that was the error of 1848 and 1849? but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck
He inspired no distrust; his good nature seemed all-pervading; he had the air of one who lavishes disinterested counsel, and ever so little exalts himself with his facile exuberance of speech. The Whirlpool George Gissing
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. George Eliot
...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. George Washington
Words move, music moves. Only in time; but that which is only living. Can only die. Words, after speech, reach. Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach. The stillness... T. S. Eliot
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart. Charlotte Bronte
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) Winston Churchill
Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous. Paul Krassner
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dal, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said, 'I will be so brief I am already finished' and sat down. E. O. Wilson
Ayn Rand quote: "Your ego is the strictest judge."-Howard Roark in his speech..."
Your ego is the strictest judge."-Howard Roark in his speech at his trial. Ayn Rand
Thomas Carlyle quote: "Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time."
Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nature is a temple, where the living. Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each. Of which regards him as a kindred thing. Charles Baudelaire
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial..."
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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