Rousing Speech Quotes

#1. She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

David Nicholls

#2. In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.
And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts ...

Raphael Kadushin

#4. Pope Urban II convened a council in France, where he made a rousing speech urging the faithful to pick up swords in the service of God, promising his holy warriors an automatic pardon for their sins and a guaranteed place in Heaven.

Cyrus Shahrad

#5. Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Alexander Pope

#6. Maybe I could be a ninja assassin too, Jack thought.

Jane Seville

#7. A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.

Tina Fey

#9. Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete

Waite Phillips

#10. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.

Jonathan Douglas Duran

#11. Let go of rousing speech
and identification with thoughts
Until your end
you will never be jaded

Lao-Tzu

#12. Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.

Nas

#13. I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Gregory Peck

#14. We can finally start translating the book," Cate said. "At least, I think we can."

"A rousing call, not dissimilar from the band of brothers speech in Henry V." [reply from Noah]

Nina Post