Quotes by Speech The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech. Peter Salovey combatspeechway The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said. Peter S. Beagle speechgriefmen Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. Peter Stuyvesant speechbearspatience This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams. Peter Watts screamspeechhurt Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit lobbying, we are in effect limiting free speech. Philip Kotler lobbyingspeechtrying Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair. Pico Iyer tolerancespeechmean If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. Piet Pieterszoon Hein speechminddoe I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. Pierre Trudeau speechgovernmentreading A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well. Pindar immortalityspeechsaid I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action. Pindar testsspeechlying In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity. Pliny the Younger pleadingcasesspeech Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." Plutarch fruitspeechtree Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers. Plutarch speechanswers You drown him by your talk. Plautus speech Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch seasonsspeechsilence It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. Plautus beatsspeechway It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law. Pope Benedict XVI speechchurchlaw Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost. Plutarch speechbeautifulmen I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. Pope Francis literary-genredefinitionsspeech The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face. Potter Stewart speechlibertyneeds«3233343536373839404142»
