Quotes of: Political-speech Keyword

He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the art, approaching it with scientific precision. On the morning of a day on which he was giving a speech, he once told Wilkie Collins, h...

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

Language is a social energy, and our capacity for articulate speech is the key factor that makes us different from other species. We are not as fast as cheetahs – or even as horses. Nor are we as strong as bulls or as adaptable as bacteria. But our...

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke from repose to greeting and the lips moved to speech, I got the first astonishing impact of his personality. Long, lean, in his face a touch of race I ...

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable m...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

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 i...

Robbert Dijkgraaf

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Pr...

Sceptical Essays

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on ...

The Poverty of Historicism

When your neighbor walks through your orchard, the polite thing to do is to ignore it.

Chinese

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Der blinde Mörder

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

The Dovekeepers

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

The Eyre Affair

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Beautiful in God's Eyes

In a victory speech, I like to thank the opposition, because without their help, I couldn’t have won.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?” Darren raised a brow. “I’m looking at it.

Apprentice

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