Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

American public policy is run on a myth.

Richard Lamm

Nonetheless the man (Hitler) had a remarkable ability to transform himself into something far more compelling, especially when speaking in public or during private meetings when some topic enraged him. He had a knack as well for projecting an aura of...

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I on...

One Dance with a Duke

Speaking one day to , on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of...

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

TO ALL MANKIND Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using any of your senses, and you will be attacked by the senseless. Speak truth, and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing...

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Quintus Tullius Cicero

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Speak up for peace, speak up for justice, speak up for freedom, Speak up your mind for truth and help make our world a better place.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?

Terry Eagleton

The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should not be cowed by exaggerated sensitivity to people's religious beliefs and fail to speak vigorously and pointedly when the devout put forth arguments manifestly contrary to all the acquired knowledge of ...

Atheism: A Reader

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Walter Benjamin

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

Vicente Fox

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger

The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

Speaking The Father's Blessing: 52 Blessings and 365 Promises To Speak Over Your Children

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Edison

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

Hope Solo

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many charms in secularism, in particular the freedom to b...

George Friedman

When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance