Quotes of: Political-speech Keyword

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

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

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Pranab Mukherjee

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Pete Seeger

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Roman Jakobson

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

Susan Estrich

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Stephen Hawking