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  • The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

    Speech   Cold   Speed  
    Jules Verne (1978). “The best of Jules Verne: three complete, illustrated novels, with original illustrations”
  • The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

  • 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 (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press
  • What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

    Stupid   Snakes   Wings  
  • Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149
  • In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.

    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

    "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.
  • The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

    Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961
  • Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

    People   Evil   Speech  
    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

  • This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

    Travel   Reality   Cities  
    May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.114, Open Road Media
  • There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

    Liars   Skills   Two  
  • Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

    Memories   Ideas   Race  
    1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.
  • The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

    Hate   Men   Long  
    "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.
  • For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

    Men   Blood   Boredom  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]
  • I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

    Rain   Flower   Hysteria  
  • It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76, St. Martin's Press
  • Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

  • Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

    War   Men   Years  
    Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940
  • You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

    Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961
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