Speaker Stubb Quotes

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. ~ Herman Melville

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real. ~ Jim Ramstad

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude. ~ Young Jeezy

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. ~ Sherwood Boehlert

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person's expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener. ~ Alexander Lowen

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget. ~ Tim Huelskamp

(Ibid. on using the verb to be in this culturally envenomed way, too, as in 'I'll Be There For You,' which has become the sort of empty spun-sugar shibboleth that communicates nothing except a certain unreflective sappiness in the speaker. ~ David Foster Wallace

When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.

#minoradjustments101 ~ Michael L. Williams Jr.

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many. ~ Carolyn Warner

If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker. ~ Zig Ziglar

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle ~ Dean Cavanagh

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. ~ Isaiah Berlin

I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call. ~ Joe Lieberman

The commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker. ~ Jane Austen

What bores the listener bores the speaker too. ~ Marshall B. Rosenberg

We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future ~ Tina Mitchell

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime. ~ Corra May Harris

A man has perished; his corpse is dust,
and his people have passed from the land;
it is a book which makes him remembered
in the mouth of a speaker.
More excellent is a [papyrus] roll than a built house,
than a chapel in the west.
It is better than an established villa,
than a stela in a temple... ~ Anonymous

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart. ~ Marsha Blackburn

Learn to leverage the Law of Cause and Effect to your advantage in positive ways! ~ Susan C. Young

Inspirations are priceless & limitless. ~ Jay Danzie

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. ~ Quintilian

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself. ~ Aristotle.

What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy? ~ Trey Gowdy

Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor. ~ John Chrysostom

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. ~ Plato

Emotionally intelligent people have an ability to manage stress as it happens and remain calm through chaos. ~ Susan C. Young

Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama. ~ Julian Castro

Passion is the soul of intensity. The speaker who truly loves God may or may not lead others to believe it, but the speaker who doesn't is only a philosopher whose ideas are too bland to be important. ~ Calvin Miller

The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places. ~ Langston Hughes