Speech Quotes

Are you willing to follow [Christ] with a disciplined mind and tongue?

Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were ...

God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from heaven above ...

The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality.

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pain...

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employ...

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting...

Our daily conversation when we meet each other, whether it be in the office or on the campus or in t...

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to Go...

Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more ...

You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it ...

The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty s...

We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we wo...

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn...

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from ...

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another ...

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conque...

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in makin...

There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or p...

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how...

I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion ...

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the...

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his lang...

…95 percent of political commentary, whether spoken or written, is now polluted by the very politics...

The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority....

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the count...

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. ...

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They w...

I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, 'twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —T...

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to l...

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which...

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none ...

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for l...

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately o...

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts...

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the ...

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so)...

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught ...

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of...

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it sh...

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our e...

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CH...

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way...

Such is the state of things in England, and it is well that it should be realised by all of us; but ...

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to be...

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic ...

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.

Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's mor...

His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is ...

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timid...

When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it...

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she...

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy ...

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in t...

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One per...

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, ...

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues ...

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Wh...

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate...

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...

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

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It...

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.