Quotes by category:Speech

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after... by Shappi Khorsandi

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

Shappi Khorsandi

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It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain by Seneca the Younger

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Seneca the Younger

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Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan... by Simon Sinek

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

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Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - an... by Simone de Beauvoir

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

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Speech is the mirror of action. by Solon

Speech is the mirror of action.

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To me no profitable speech sounds ill. by Sophocles

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

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Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

Sophie Swetchine

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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. by Sophocles

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

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Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. by Spiro T. Agnew

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

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You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

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To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

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One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is... by Sophocles

One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. by Sophocles

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Soren Kierkegaard

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O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate,... by Sri Chinmoy

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

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