Pastoral Resources

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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

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.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.