Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: “If thou examinest a...

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

A man’s words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man...

eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion...

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders.

He had a voice you couldn’t miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

You ask me why I don’t speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill’Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it’s...

Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words carry power, therefore before you speak out, speak in… and test your words!

Why Westerners are so obsessed with “saving” Africa, and why this obsession so often goes awry? Western countries should understand that Africa’s development chances and social possibilities remain heavily hindered due to its overall mediocre...

The objectives remain the same and indeed that has been made clear by the Prime Minister in a speech yesterday that the objectives are clear and the one about the removal of the Taliban is...

I’m Valerie Rye,’ she said, savoring the words. ‘It’s all right for you to talk to me.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

Why doesn’t the fellow who says, ”I’m no speechmaker” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it… Hilarious.

To a certain extent, Bush’s speech about increased spending in the U.S. Gulf Coast is helping the market. I am not too terribly surprised that consumer confidence is low because the number is colored by...

A woman’s weapon is her tongue.

Your silence will not protect you.

Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.

She moved her hands like crane claws as she spoke, trying to dig at the essence of what she was saying. It was the dirtiest I love you I’ve ever heard.

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

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

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a...

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between...

Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult....

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

He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost...

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

Don’t talk sign language and masturbate at the same time. Not unless you’re translating a Presidential State of the Union address.

Ethics”, and I said, Sure, I might enjoy a bit of stand-up comedy.

The playwright’s rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship’s whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could...

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect...

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

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: “The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for...

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

In a victory speech, I like to thank the opposition, because without their help, I couldn’t have won.

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true...

He gave this five-minute speech, but I don’t remember any of it. I was so emotional and overwhelmed.

The mouth is but a megaphone to the desires of the heart.

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

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

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse,—Wherein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else...

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

If you are tempted to revealA tale to you someone has toldAbout another, make it pass,Before you speak, three gates of gold;These narrow gates. First, “Is it true?”Then, “Is it needful?” In your mindGive truthful...