Quotes of: Freedom-of-speech Keyword

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

The Aleph and Other Stories

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Milton: Introductions

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

Journey to the End of the Night

The streetlight forge speech bubbles of illumination in the air. A faint glow from the moon casts eerie shadows behind the dark clouds.

Shadow Embraced

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Madame Bovary

Sometimes I wonder what happened to great speeches, but then I turn on the TV and I’m in wonder at how good my candidate looks.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

Surfacing

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Seeing Voices

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

The Prince and the Pauper

ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR? Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech

Profound Vers-A-Tales

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

The Tempest

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

The Thirteenth Tale

It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.

Writings And Speeches

Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.

Writings And Speeches

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

Nong Duc Manh

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

Phil Jackson