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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. -- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches pass away, but acts remain. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver. -- Aristotle
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners. -- Anthony Trollope
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. -- Peggy Noonan
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war. -- Benito Mussolini
Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right. -- Rickey Henderson
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
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
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. -- Marjane Satrapi
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour. -- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. Speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard. -- William J. Clinton
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. -- Colin Powell
I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill. -- Maurice Druon
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. -- Ruth Gordon
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered. -- Peggy Noonan
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. -- Peter Drucker
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture. -- Madeleine Albright
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. -- Alice Walker
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. -- Otto von Bismarck
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. -- Kate Smith
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -- Gore Vidal
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. -- Demosthenes
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. -- James Earl Jones
I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches. -- Pete Seeger
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. -- Dick Durbin
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there. -- Dan Quayle
My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness. -- Phil Jackson
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are. -- Keke Palmer
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. -- Pierre Trudeau
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. -- J. M. Coetzee
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. -- H. L. Mencken
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. -- Voltaire
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. -- Swami Sivananda
There's, you know, there's an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that just a bad guy. He doesn't wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn't wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that kind of embody a certain mentality about what's wrong with humanity. -- Chris Evans
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile. -- Colm Toibin
The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. -- Steve Wynn
The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't. -- Mark McKinnon
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. -- Jack Welch
Nature doesn't make long speeches. -- Laozi
I find doing speeches nerve wrecking. -- Kate Middleton
They classify my motivational speeches as rants! -- Kanye West
Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches. -- Helmut Schmidt
With God there is no need for long speeches. -- Jane Frances de Chantal
I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh. -- Nikki Giovanni
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. -- Louis Pasteur
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy. -- Jacques Santer
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world. -- Billy Graham
Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches. -- Doug Benson
It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face! -- Michelle Obama
Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. -- Pete Seeger
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. -- Alan Bullock
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time. -- Scott Simon
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches -- Colin Powell
I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. -- George D. Prentice
I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot. -- Joe Strummer
If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions. -- Amit Kalantri
All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future. -- Patrick Dixon
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. -- Will Rogers
One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches. -- Harold Klemp
I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump. -- Karen Morley
I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption. -- Narendra Modi
Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. -- Keke Palmer
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. -- Elaine Stritch
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. -- Elizabeth Berkley
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa. -- Henry Adams
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches. -- Wayne Dyer
I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in. -- Ann Richards
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... -- Smedley Butler
Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. -- Amit Kalantri
No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence -- Mazigh Buzakhar
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches. -- Evan Esar
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. -- Bill Bradley
The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. -- Dwayne Andreas
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled. -- Jesse Jackson
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. -- Fidel Castro
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. -- Winston Churchill
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime. -- Honus Wagner
Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field. -- Jim Hunt
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches -- Patricia Highsmith
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. -- Patricia Highsmith
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa. -- Gregory Benford
If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost. -- Lawrence Bender
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." -- Peter Drucker
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. -- Charles Bradlaugh
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. -- Plutarch
My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems. -- Marco Rubio
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required. -- Richard Armour
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. -- Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches. -- Gwen Ifill
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit. -- Plutarch
The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches. -- John Heider
Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. -- Hillary Clinton
While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance -- Thom Yorke
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions. -- Steve Maraboli
They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. -- Rob Lowe
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. -- Francis Bacon
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight. -- Homer
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. -- Frank Muir
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. -- Tennessee Williams
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron. -- Otto von Bismarck
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship. -- James G. Watt
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. -- J. K. Rowling
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. -- Samuel Rogers
I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain. -- Klaus Kinski
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Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled. -- Kin Hubbard
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. -- Charles Krauthammer

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