Quotes & Sayings About Speech Contests

I'm like the girl next door ... I just have a bad streak. — Jenna Jameson

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. — John Ruskin

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation. — Dalai Lama XIV

To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes. — Marianne Williamson

Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [ ... ] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you. — Aldous Huxley

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains. — John Seely Hart

I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I've always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library. — Debbie Macomber

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced. — Kenny G

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood. — Angela Carter

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny. — Barbara Jordan

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career. — Jill Soloway

Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There was something febrile about her independence that made him nervous on her behalf. — Rachel Joyce