Speech quotations

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◆ If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

- Dustin Lance Black99

◆ A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart99

◆ The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

- Josh Billings99

◆ Darkness promotes speech.

- Alberto Manguel99

◆ I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we've forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

- Rasmenia Massoud99

◆ Speech is the voice of the heart.

- Anna Quindlen99

◆ Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.

- A.J. Jacobs99

◆ She moved her hands like crane claws as she spoke, trying to dig at the essence of what she was saying. It was the dirtiest I love you I've ever heard.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

- Taylor Mali99

◆ We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

- Barack Obama99

◆ We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

- Wendell Berry99

◆ People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by emitting a series of uncontrolled high-pitched noises, accompanied by sharp intakes of breath of the sort normally associated with a seizure or heart failure. And by these means we converse. Talking, when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed.

- Bill Bryson99

◆ Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Tears of eyes are valuable, speech of lips are powerful, heart with love is beautiful, life with friends is most wonderful.

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