Rhetoric Quotes

“What luck has gave you will probably leave you.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Action achieves ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

— Shirley Chisholm

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

— Amit Kalantri

Vision is not political rhetoric.

— Jean Chretien

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

— Cherrie Moraga

“An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.

— Senator John Kerry

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

— Eric Cantor

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

— Amit Kalantri

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

— Richard Whately

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

— Amit Kalantri

“You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.”

— Amit Kalantri

U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in…

— Kerry Kennedy

The Patriots do a great job of establishing a common rhetoric of working hard and working for the men that stand next…

— Julian Edelman

“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,…

— James C. Scott

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting…

— Paul Fry

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we…

— Tim Ryan

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames,…

— Noreena Hertz

For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and…

— Jay Roach

“A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.”

— Jerome Groopman

The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008,…

— Rebecca Traister

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been…

— Julian Assange

Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…

— William Manchester

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness…

— Eliot Spitzer

I guess if you got elected on a bumper sticker slogan you didn't really mean, it makes perfect sense to try to…

— Nancy Mace

“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only…

— Plato

In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons…

— Ryan Zinke

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce…

— Milton Friedman

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…

— Susan Sontag

We've seen hate groups rise across the country. But we've also seen an increase in the average person, who looks like your…

— Christian Picciolini

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It…

— Peter Schiff

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,…

— Stephen King

We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at…

— Michael Hastings

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of…

— Stephen Kinzer