Quotes with speaker

  • House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our elec

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Somers White A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lessor speakers fail to.
    Somers White
     
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  • Robert Orben Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Stephane Mallarme The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
    Stephane Mallarme
    French poet (1842 - 1898)
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ann Coulter If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Camille Paglia If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Plutarch In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Boyle Roche Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Alcee Hastings Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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 II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • B. F. Skinner The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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