75 Quotes About Speech

Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give. You should be nice to people, even creeps. And if you:a) believed that Joshua was the Son of God (and)b) he had come to save you from sin (and)c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became as a little child, he would say) (and)d) didn't blaspheme the Holy Ghost (see c)then you would:e) live foreverf) someplace niceg) probably heavan However, if you:h) sinned (and/or)i) were a hypocrite (and/or)j) valued things over people (and)k) didn't do a, b, c, and d, then you were:l) fucked . Christopher Moore

But I want you to know, " Cleo continued, "that there is hope. And that I am living proof of that hope. Because, even though I was forced into this marriage against my will, I have come to know Prince Magnus Lukas Damora very well these last months. And one thing I've learned is that Prince Magnus is nothing like his father. Prince Magnus is brave and compassionate, and he truly wants what's just and best for this kingdom. Kindness is what makes a good king who will put the needs and rights of his people before his own desires. Morgan Rhodes

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti- Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this–this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you. . Christopher Hitchens

Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not, ' he said. 'Not for ages.'' My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day! ' ..'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.'' Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.'' Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane. . Charles Finch

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff. Seriously, sorority girls have done the Walk of Shame home from frat parties feeling more satisfied. Stephen Green

I believe with all my heart, that Magnus is a worthy and superior successor to your current king. Therefore, I ask today that you reject Gaius Damora as your leader and take Prince Magnus as your new king. He will right the wrongs that have overtaken Mytica. And he will make Gaius Damora pay for all he has destroyed. Morgan Rhodes

I never understood what it meant to be a Democrat or Republican. I'm fully American and agree on some issues presented by both - but not all of them. So why do I have to pick a side? Nobody can say they agree with every single issue proposed by any team unless they lack the ability to think for themselves. To me, both parties are the same. A method to distract and divide a nation from using common sense and logic. I would want a leader to represent every fraction of the country as one united SUM. To make the country stronger, not weaker. One thing I know for certain, is to never choose a leader who needs their speeches written for them. If they cannot communicate to the public directly with their own heart, then they are not a true leader. Suzy Kassem

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked into the honeymoon suite at the nearest bed-and-breakfast." The Miami Seaquarium put in a monorail and rockets started going off at Cape Canaveral, making us feel like we were on the frontier of the future. Disney bought up everything north of Lake Okeechobee, preparing to shove the future down our throats sideways." Things evolved rapidly! Missile silos in Cuba. Bales on the beach. Alligators are almost extinct and then they aren't. Juntas hanging shingles in Boca Raton. Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo skinny-dipping off Key Biscayne. We atone for atrocities against the INdians by playing Bingo. Shark fetuses in formaldehyde jars, roadside gecko farms, tourists waddling around waffle houses like flocks of flightless birds. And before we know it, we have The New Florida, underplanned, overbuilt and ripe for a killer hurricane that'll knock that giant geodesic dome at Epcot down the trunpike like a golf ball, a solid one-wood by Buckminster Fuller."I am the native and this is my home. Faded pastels, and Spanish tiles constantly slipping off roofs, shattering on the sidewalk. Dogs with mange and skateboard punks with mange roaming through yards, knocking over garbage cans. Lunatics wandering the streets at night, talking about spaceships. Bail bondsmen wake me up at three A.M. looking for the last tenant. Next door, a mail-order bride is clubbed by a smelly ma in a mechanic's shirt. Cats violently mate under my windows and rats break-dance in the drop ceiling. And I'm lying in bed with a broken air conditioner, sweating and sipping lemonade through a straw. And I'm thinking, geez, this used to be a great state." You wanna come to Florida? You get a discount on theme-park tickets and find out you just bough a time share. Or maybe you end up at Cape Canaveral, sitting in a field for a week as a space shuttle launch is canceled six times. And suddenly vacation is over, you have to catch a plane, and you see the shuttle take off on TV at the airport. But you keep coming back, year after year, and one day you find you're eighty years old driving through an orange grove. . Tim Dorsey

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy. Amit Kalantri

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. Anthony Liccione

If I were the Devil. I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as you please.” To the young, I would whisper, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is “square”. In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: “Our Father, which art in Washington”. If I were the devil, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I’d get organized. I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I’d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine yound intellects but neglect to discipline emotions. let those run wild. I would designate an athiest to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say “she’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them. If I were Satan, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle. If I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s. Paul Harvey

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever. Auliq Ice

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions. Amit Kalantri

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration. Amit Kalantri

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval. Shannon L. Alder

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the only place where speeches are given. Some hundred thousand teachers teach every day. They all speak 45 minutes, more times a day. They have been doing this for years. Every teacher knows exactly when the time will be over and that by then his speech will need to come to a natural end. It is this tension that determines the success of a lesson. It is a sign of the times that we forget these daily achievements in education. A million students daily attend several ‘live’ lectures and this in secondary education alone. These are high ratings! . Robbert Dijkgraaf

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference. Israelmore Ayivor

Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be. Israelmore Ayivor

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence. Brad McKinniss

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence Paul Morabito

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms. Ron Brackin

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texa..s? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. John F. Kennedy

Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies. Robert Moment

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston S. Churchill

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time. Theodore Roosevelt

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. Gore Vidal

The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to the photographs and films of the American Nazi salute performed by federal, state, county, and local officials?' Those photos and films are rare because people don't want to know the truth. Public officials in the USA who preceded the German socialist (Hitler) and the Italian socialist (Mussolini) were sources for the stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting) in those countries and other foreign countries. . Micky Barnetti

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. G. K. Chesterton

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth! Bible

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy. Henry Grattan

Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee. Ben Jonson

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one. Baltasar Gracian

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn. Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. Cicero

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. Adlai Stevenson

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best. James Russell Lowell

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both. Elizabeth Charles

Whatever is well said by another is mine. Seneca

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches. F. E. Smith

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason. Benjamin Franklin

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. Sophocles

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases. George Bernard Shaw

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings. A. P. Herbert

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. Josh Billings

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent. Ovid

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion. Thomas Babington Macaulay

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit. Piet Hein

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain. H. I. Phillips

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent. Franklin J. Dickman

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. Winston Churchill

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak. Epictetus

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say. Gerald Ford

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them. Hubert Humphrey

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot

Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osier

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk. Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Speech is the small change of silence. George Meredith

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it. Calvin Coolidge

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. Edmund Muskie

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack! Winston Churchill

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. William Shakespeare

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured. Unknown

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches. Yvonne Strahovski

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them. Bruce Eric Kaplan

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker

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

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. Demosthenes