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Speech Quotes (page 25)

Pythagoras quote: "In anger we should refrain both from speech and action."
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. Pythagoras
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun. Mark Helprin
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense. Aldo Leopold
I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years. Alex Comfort
William Stafford quote: "A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from..."
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say. William Stafford
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both. Mark Helprin
Charles Dickens quote: "A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Charles Dickens
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."(Speech in the House of Commons, 11 November 1947) Winston Churchill
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. Thomas Carlyle
How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you. Like light behind windblown fog and sand. Filtered and influenced by it, until no part. Remains that is surely you. John Ashbery
If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. It’s more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore. Amputated speech. Margaret Atwood
Kate Chopin quote: "She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her..."
She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly. Kate Chopin
Winston Churchill quote: "A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to..."
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest Winston Churchill
Articulation! There, by Joe, was MY absolute, if I could be said to have one. At any rate, it is the only thing I can think of about which I ever had, with any frequency at all, the feelings one usually has for one's absolutes. To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I... John Barth
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes. W. H. Auden

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