Long Speeches Quotes

• But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

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  Albert Camus

  Rivers   Talking   Long  

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

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  Winston Churchill

  Sorry   Writing   Long  

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• [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

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  Richard Armour

  Art   Epic   Long  

  Richard Armour (1969). “English lit relit: a short history of English literature from the precursors (before swearing) to the Pre-Raphaelites and a little after, intended to help students see the thing through, or see through the thing, and omitting nothing unimportant”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• What is the short meaning of the long speech?

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  Friedrich Schiller

  Long   Speech   Long Speeches  

  "Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Part I, Act I, Scene II), 1798.

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• The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

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  John Heider

  Leadership   Long   Silence  

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.23, Green Dragon Books

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• Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Long   Speech   Long Speeches  

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• With God there is no need for long speeches.

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  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Long   Needs   Speech  

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• A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.

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  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle   Reality   Organization  

  Nelson Mandela (1978). “The struggle is my life”

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• Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

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  Owen Feltham

  Ignorance   Men   Long  

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• I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

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  Winston Churchill

  Military   Long   Speech  

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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  Laozi

  Nature   Long   Speech  

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• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.

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  Dylan Moran

  Long   Speech   Rehearsal  

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