Quotes of: Political-speech Keyword

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

Writings And Speeches

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Writings And Speeches

The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

Steve Coogan

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

George Fetherling

Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.

Onyi Anyado

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Oliver Herford

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

Peter Ellis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

Penn Jillette

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Richard Griffiths

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Stephen Fry

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Sigmund Freud

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

Stephen Kinzer

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Kirk Douglas

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

Lamar Alexander

Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

Luce Irigaray

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." (Keynote speech at luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

Madeleine Albright

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.

Mos Def