Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful....

If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are...

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

Tim Tebow’s Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted...

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power…

Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when...

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well ?’ ‘Very well indeed, sir,’ was the enthusiastic answer. ‘I am glad of that,’ replied the king; ‘for there was nothing in it.

He never actually came out and said just that. But in every speech he gave during the campaign and afterwards, he left the impression. He left the impression with 65 percent of the American people,...

Such is the state of things in England, and it is well that it should be realised by all of us; but it must not be supposed for a moment that I am afraid of...

Of course when the East-Enders resettled they took their speech with them, and they and their descendants continue to speak in East London dialect with East London accents,

Three times now… We’ve fought world wars for our own nations, our own villages. We’ve hurt one another. We’ve hated one another. That hatred bred a lust for power, and that lust for power created...

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

Word Powers:A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill.

I”divides me from God.

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

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the ‘language of Shakespeare’… sufficiently to realise the...

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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....