Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white....

Have you lost it, as they say? Yesterday Amikam Cohen delivered a highly persuasive speech about how expensive regulation is, and I agreed with most of what he had to say. It is also bad...

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

It transpired that Saddam Hussein was attempting to make some kind of speech or have some kind of discussion with the judge outside of what the judge had directly asked him,

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific life. I...

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

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.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It’s so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…

Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic.

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

We don’t have no say, ‘cause we was an afterthought. He yanked us up out o’ man’s ribs, but He made man out the Earth. He made him out the dirt and the mud and...

As was the case for Nobel’s own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.

I’ve never made a film using dialogue or speech.

enriched” by all this.

Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are “trying to tell us/… It’s native to the words/and what they want...

They have a heckler’s veto over speech and content.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong...

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

What is stealing?When is it excusable? When is it a crime?’ Thomas looked uncomfortable as he read. Christian perked up. Belle saw Christian listening with interest and looked down at her shoes. ‘An action becomes...

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

I just told him the speech he makes before every big game he should make that before every small team, also, and we’ll be OK.

He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the art, approaching it with scientific precision. On the morning of a day on...

Even Dionysus’s welcome-home speech wasn’t enough to dampen my spirits. “Yes, yes, so the little brat didn’t get himself killed and now he’ll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements,...

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.Don’t let a loud few determine the nature...

People don’t talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the...

If you read the speech, he seems to imply that those hikes aren’t enough.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

The institution asked me to speak and say a few words. So, knowing a few is three, I said, I love you.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God’s own heart.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

Unless I speak, you won’t see me.

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

We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don’t listen to their words, but watch their actions.

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

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

A comment that starts with the words “I think” usually means the opposite.

. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

How are you going to make it move? It doesn’t have a – ” “Be very quiet,” advised the duke, “for it goes without saying.”And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still,...

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken...

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi,...