#speech

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#silence #speech #truth #beauty

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#speech #life

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#another #day #every #find #goes

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#belgian #body #boston #care #considerable

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#along #always #arrested #because #go

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #always #book #chicago #child

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#fire #old-timer #remember #remember when #setting

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development. ↗

— Johann Most

#deed #development #every #more #point

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#free speech #go #i #marks #paper

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#asked #because #loss #make #mark