Quotes 21 till 40 of 162.
-
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
-
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
-
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
-
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
-
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
-
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
-
Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
-
Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
-
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
Source: The Songlines p. 270 -
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
-
Every regulatory speech on derivatives takes a bow to their hedging 'benefits.' Less publicly, regulators pay their respects to derivative profits, a blessed relief from the banks' troubled loans to less-developed countries, highly leveraged companies, and real estate swingers.
-
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
-
For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
-
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
-
For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
-
Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980) -
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
All speech] famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 2)
