Eloquent Quotes · Page 4

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his…

— Honore de Balzac

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

— Paul Horn

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

— Louis Leakey

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

— Joseph Joubert

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

— Al Kooper

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met…

— Helen Keller

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle…

— Oscar Wilde

Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in…

— David W. Orr

This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when…

— Thucydides

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies,…

— John Muir

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other…

— Jane Austen

As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does…

— Trevanian

Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style…

— Gary Giddins

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which…

— Ouida

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the…

— Henry Miller

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

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

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every…

— Bertrand Russell

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows…

— Karen White

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

— Thomas Carlyle

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

— Martial

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

— Gloria Naylor

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

— James Hervey

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

— Publilius Syrus

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

— Lawrence Fagg

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

— Horace

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

— Madeleine Sophie Barat

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's…

— Robert Jordan

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

— Mark Lawrence

Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why…

— Mira Bartok

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my…

— Isaac Marion

Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate,…

— Andreas J. Kostenberger