A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Sivananda

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
G. B. Trudeau

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
Alan Bullock

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Kate Smith

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
Archibald Primrose

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
Jacques Santer

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
Karen Morley

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
James Humes

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Colin Powell

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
Ed Rendell

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Jesse Jackson

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.
Lydia Lunch