"A great speech is literature."

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Peggy Noonan

#Literature Quotes #Speech Quotes #Great Speech Quotes

“I don't feel old or young, I just am”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 27, 2018
“I know the strengths and weaknesses of my teammates. I make my passing decisions accordingly”
“We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,”

Source : "How reliable is your memory?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”
“I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.”
“Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.”
“In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.”

Source : "Street Food Fight" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. December 1, 2009.
“When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.”

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