Quotes about Speech
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
- John Milton
Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.
- John Milton
Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.
- John Piper
Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3
- John Piper
The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.
- John Piper
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
- Ellen White
It is a law of nature that our thoughts and feelings are encouraged and strengthened as we give them utterance.
- Ellen White
Can it be that man, made in the image of God, endowed with reason and speech, shall alone be unappreciative of His gifts and disobedient to His laws? Will those who might be elevated and ennobled, fitted to be colaborers with Him, be content to remain imperfect in character and to cause confusion in our world?.
- Ellen White
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
- Zinedine Zidane
how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.
- George W. Bush