Speech Quotes

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

Imagine a world where your words appear on your skin. Would you be more careful of what you say? Why or why not?

[The man of impure speech is a] person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

Am I a machine with out feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, plain, obscure, and little that I am souless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and full as much heart. And if God had possessed me with beauty and wealth, I could make it as hard for you to leave me as I to leave you...

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love ..... If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. .... So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?

Life is hectic, do nothing and the path will soon become clear.

If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the internet. And you can find A LOT of people who don’t like you. I’d like to address some of them now. Babsnlacross, you can suck it. Dianefan, you can suck it. Cougarletter, you can really suck it. ‘Cause all year, you’ve been after me. All year.

I want to say thank to the Hollywood Foreign Press. I’ve always loved the Hollywood Foreign Press. As a kid, I had all the Hollywood Foreign Press action figures. Thank you, Will Arnett, for that joke.

I'm not going to get emotional tonight because I am a stone cold bitch.

Because life shouldn't be random. Because lonely, misantropic drug addicts should die in bus crashes. And the young do-gooders in love that get dragged out of their apartments in the middle of the night should walk away clean.

Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

So, no, I will not give up on trying to change the tone of our politics.  I know it's an election year.  And after last week, it's clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual.  But we still need to govern. 

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country will do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.