S Quotes
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“Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss”
“Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”
Source: The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose
“Speech always begins with stammering. Acts and action always begin with trembling. There is no continuum of the will. It acts on the body by fits and starts (stossweise) and is the product of an interval, a rapid alternation, between tension and release: to act is to produce a difference - even a slight one - between you and yourself. If you eliminate the intervals, tetany ensues: you shake all over.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.”
“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”
“Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.”
Source: Second foundation
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the difference between thing and process, except as they functioned in clauses. Her predications were all shotgun weddings. Her ideas were as decorative as half-timber beams that bore no building load.
She balked at metaphor. I felt the annoyance of her weighted vectors as they readjusted themselves, trying to accommodate my latest caprice. You're hungry enough to eat a horse. A word from a friend ties your stomach in knots. Embarrassment shrinks you, amazement strikes you dead. Wasn't the miracle enough? Why do humans need to say everything in speech's stockhouse except what they mean?”
Source: Galatea 2.2
“Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.”
Source: Essays
“Speech blossoms from anxiety… words were fermented from the uncertainty of existence, like poisonous red mushrooms sprout from the rotting earth. It’s true we have words of joy and pleasure, but aren’t those the most unnatural and contrived of them all? Apparently, human beings experience anxiety even in the midst of joy. But in a place without anxiety, there’s no need for such ignoble contrivances.”
Source: Urashima san
“Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain”
“Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.”
“Speech falls on the heart like fire,
One cannot endure the word of mouth.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.”
“Speech happens to not be his language.”
“Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
“Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.”
“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”
Source: Course in General Linguistics
“Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.”
“Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.”
“Speech is a natural right. God gave us each a mind, a conscience, and the power to articulate what weighs on them. Only a fool seeks to silence those who disagree with him.”
“Only a fool? Doesn’t every man find disagreement to be disagreeable?”
“You studied Euclid. In geometry, is A farther from B or is B farther from A?”
She frowned. They had been discussing Locke, not Euclid. “They’re the same.”
“Correct. And so it is in every disagreement. The difference is as great on each side. Herein is the great mystery of government. The opinions of our elected representatives are as diverse as those of the voters who elected them. It is in the collision of truth and opinions that we create a unified voice.”
“Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity”
“Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.”
Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.”
“Speech is always bolder than action.”
“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.”
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues
“Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Speech is but the incorporation of thought.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Speech is civilization itself.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.”
“Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.”
“Speech is great, but silence is greater.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions
“Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.”
“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.”
Source: Modes of Thought
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.”
“Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH”
“Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.”
Source: Signs
“Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.”
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
“Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.”
“Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.”
Source: Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.”
Source: Poems of King Alfred
“Speech is silver, silence is golden.”
Source: The Hero as Man of Letters
“Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).”
“Speech is the best show a man puts on.”
Source: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”