Quotes About Welcome Speech

#1. After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#2. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. - Author: L.M. Montgomery

#3. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either. - Author: John Leo

#4. Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have. - Author: Mark Thomas

#5. I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. - Author: Peggy Noonan

#6. It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened. - Author: Charles B. Rangel

#7. He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence - of talking without meaning - is never effaced. - Author: Henry Adams

#8. A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on. - Author: William T. Piper

#9. You don't need speech or hearing to feel [friendship] - Author: Mitch Albom

#10. The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan. - Author: H.L. Mencken

#11. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same. - Author: Jacques Derrida

#12. I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible."
"Did you kick their butts?"
He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone."
I laughed. "It's a figure of speech."
"To kick butts. Interesting. - Author: Allison Van Diepen

#13. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too. - Author: Stan Slap

#14. The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is. - Author: Pat Oliphant

#15. A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power. - Author: Quintilian

#16. How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe. - Author: James Thomas Fields

#17. 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, there will be no canoe races this Saturday ... - Author: Rick Riordan

#18. Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom. - Author: Mathew Staver

#19. They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. - Author: Clint Eastwood

#20. The silence sucked his speech away. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#21. In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods. - Author: Lewis Spence

#22. Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'. - Author: Richard Stallman

#23. Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent. - Author: Wendell Phillips

#24. All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns. - Author: Jesse Kellerman

#25. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely. - Author: Bill Hicks

#26. The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees. - Author: Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#27. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character. - Author: Frederick Douglass

#28. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Author: Brendan Behan

#29. Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave
and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same. - Author: Jesse Ball

#30. Hypocrites get offended by the truth. - Author: Jess C. Scott

#31. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language. - Author: David Levithan

#32. When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people. - Author: Thomas Szasz

#33. He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people's minds, becomes worthy of worship by people. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#34. My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct. - Author: Bob Sheppard

#35. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart. - Author: Anthony The Great

#36. Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. - Author: Jan Koum