Quotes about speeches

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texa...s? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing

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Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.

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.

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Speech is the small change of silence.

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to the photographs and films of the American Nazi salute performed by federal, state, county, and local officials?' Those photos and films are rare because people don't want to know the truth. Public officials in the USA who preceded the German socialist (Hitler) and the Italian socialist (Mussolini) were sources for the stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting) i

Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.

But I want you to know," Cleo continued, "that there is hope. And that I am living proof of that hope. Because, even though I was forced into this marriage against my will, I have come to know Prince Magnus Lukas Damora very well these last months. And one thing I've learned is that Prince Magnus is nothing like his father. Prince Magnus is brave and compassionate, and he truly wants what's just and best for this kingdom. Kindness is what makes a good king who will put the needs and rights of hi

Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give.You should be nice to people, even creeps.And if you:a) believed that Joshua was the Son of God (and)b) he had come to save you from sin (and)c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became as a little child, he would say) (and)d) didn't blaspheme the

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked i

I never understood what it meant to be a Democrat or Republican. I'm fully American and agree on some issues presented by both - but not all of them. So why do I have to pick a side? Nobody can say they agree with every single issue proposed by any team unless they lack the ability to think for themselves. To me, both parties are the same. A method to distract and divide a nation from using common sense and logic. I would want a leader to represent every fraction of the country as one united SUM

I believe with all my heart, that Magnus is a worthy and superior successor to your current king. Therefore, I ask today that you reject Gaius Damora as your leader and take Prince Magnus as your new king. He will right the wrongs that have overtaken Mytica. And he will make Gaius Damora pay for all he has destroyed.

Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily.He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.''My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ...'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.''Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.''Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff. Seriously, sorority girls have done the Walk of Shame home from frat parties feeling more satisfied.

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as yo

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the only place where speeches are given. Some hundred thousand teachers teach every day. They all speak 45 minutes, more times a day. They have been doing this for years. Every teacher knows exactly when the t