Speech Quotes - Page 17

• And empty heads console with empty sound.

  Alexander Pope

  Sound, Empty, Console

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.356

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• I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

  Bella Heathcote

  Drama, School, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Lobbyists, Firsts

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• Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.

  Norman Dorsen

  Education, Art, Truth

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• It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.

  Ithiel de Sola Pool

  Fighting, Power, Police

  Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Free thought, free speech and a free press.

  Anne Royall

  Freedom, Free Thought, Free Press

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• Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

  Ursula Parrott

  Mean, Etiquette, Civilized

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Winter, Weather, People

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• My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

  Charlene Weir

  Daddy, Trying, Dollars

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• Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Dog, Humor

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• I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Humor, Political

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, Excellence

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• Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.

  Martha Roth

  Sex, Passion, Vitality

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• 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.

  Andrew Young

  Dream, White, Jail

  "FRONTLINE" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• 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.

  Ida B. Wells

  Country, Baby, Believe

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.244, University of Chicago Press

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• The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

  John Dos Passos

  Writing, Mind, Generations

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

  Jules Verne

  Cold, Speed, Deprived

  Jules Verne (1978). “The best of Jules Verne: three complete, illustrated novels, with original illustrations”

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• I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

  Eleanor Catton

  Thinking, Facts, Accused

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• Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

  Lindsey Graham

  War, Ideas, Great Idea

  "'Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war': Check out the 10 most absurd things Lindsey Graham has said". www.glennbeck.com. March 26, 2014.

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• There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Doe, Environment

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• Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Baseball, Fighting, People

  "Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy Jr., p.9, 1964.

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Government, Years, Editors

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• [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Epic, Long

  Richard Armour (1969). “English lit relit: a short history of English literature from the precursors (before swearing) to the Pre-Raphaelites and a little after, intended to help students see the thing through, or see through the thing, and omitting nothing unimportant”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.

  Carly Fiorina

  Clueless, Financial, Economic

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Sometimes, people mistake fire in the belly for too much pepperoni pizza the night before. They make a great speech and people come up to them and tell them, "You could be president." And the next thing you know, they're running, not because they really ought to or have any shot at doing it, but because they have, you know, a handful of people that tell them they are looking at the next president.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Mistake, Night

  "Mike Huckabee Explains 2012 Decision; Rep. Ron Paul on His Presidential Bid; Sens. Durbin, Kyl Talk Immigration Reform, Debt Ceiling". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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