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Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. -- William Shakespeare
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less. -- Charles R. Swindoll
People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me. -- George W. Bush
Let your speech be true and sweet. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. -- William Shakespeare
If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government. -- Stephen Colbert
You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech. -- Ken Weber
O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you. -- Sri Chinmoy
Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it. -- Stephen Covey
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment. -- Archibald Marwizi
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. -- Elbert Hubbard
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue. -- Khalil Gibran
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze. -- Mikhail Naimy
Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course. -- Juan Cole
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction. -- George Saunders
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after. -- Bob Dylan
Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your speech and blur your memory, making you wonder who are all those people out there and why are they staring at you? -- Teresa Bloomingdale
How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach? -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
'Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.' 'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him. He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.' -- Danielle L. Jensen
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out -- Paul the Apostle
If you can't stay focused enough to focus on what people out there actually care about, their own lives, their healthcare, their education for their children, businesses that they can build, if you can stay focused enough to put that in your speech, you can't be president. -- Star Jones
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? -- Bo Bennett
When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled. -- Tucker Max
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. -- Nora Ephron
I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own. -- Isla Fisher
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. -- Peter Stuyvesant
You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life. -- Joyce Meyer
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. -- Bill Gates
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone. -- August Wilson
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions. -- Jodelle Ferland
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president. -- Mark McKinnon
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
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it. -- Jann Wenner
What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' -- Tom Hooper
Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet. -- John Doolittle
Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech. -- George W. Bush
Set example to your children, in speech and in conduct. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech? -- Jon Stewart
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. -- Luqman
You create the life you wish by your thoughts, speech and actions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue. -- Yuanwu Keqin
Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart. -- Elizabeth George
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. -- Helene Cixous
Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech. -- Ilona Andrews
False lovers come with much speech to convince.The truest love says less, but has the ability to capture your soul. -- Zarina Bibi
The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation,every sound is speech... -- Sappho
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own. -- Michael Kinsley
The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. -- Ralph Charell
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his -- Kenneth Burke
O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue. -- Moses
There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speechâ?¦ -- Dan Stevens
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots. -- Jacques Barzun
There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending. -- Sergio De La Pava
We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else. -- Mark Foley

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