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If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

#speech

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared. ↗

— Barack Obama

#speech

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. ↗

— Trevanian

#figures-of-speech #irony #speech

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#words #speech

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#language #song #soul #speech #speech

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#speech

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

— Lao Tzu

#travel #wisdom #speech

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?” For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime.” I can live with that,” he said, and kissed her. ↗

— Laura Lee Guhrke

#speech

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#monsters #hate

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#pursuit #sex #tease #women #hate