The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Dear Father, take this days life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, "Son,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
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