Rhetoric Quotes - Page 2

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway.

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document, but people tend to practice it around the dialogue table. One should not raise, for instance, such questions as gender justice, sexual orientation issues, religious constructions of the other, multiple forms of violence in a religious community, or religious cooperation with neo/imperialism. each religion has its own _history of sin_ that has justified and perpetuated oppression and exclusion of certain groups of people through its own religious teaching, doctrine, and practice. In order to be _nice_ and _tolerant_ to one another, interreligious dialogue has not challenged the fundamental issues of injustice that a particular religion has practiced, justified, and perpetuated in various ways. I do not disregard that most ecumenists have based interreligious dialogue on a politics of tolerance, and this has played a significant role in easing the antagonism between religions, at least among the leaders of established religions. However, we should ground an authentic ecumenism and theology of religion in a _politics of affirmation and transformation, rather than a politics of tolerance_.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.