Rhetoric Quotes · Page 18

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to…

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Amit Kalantri

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

— Gavin Newsom

Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the…

— Ian Hacking

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human…

— Jaron Lanier

“Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes,…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Leftists are fighting back against Trump not with policy differentials, but rather with insane rhetoric and temper tantrums.

— Trish Regan

The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have…

— Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

— Stephen Young

“In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all…

— Adam J. Banks

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms…

— George Will

Their rhetoric is the same as always. The only difference is that the United States has granted them a whole series of…

— Marco Rubio

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration…

— Henry David Thoreau

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

— Cherrie Moraga

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

— Anonymous

Trump's divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won't play well with the general public, either.

— Anthony Scaramucci

And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And…

— Jeh Johnson

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for…

— Justine Larbalestier

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past…

— Dar Williams

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,…

— Thomas Sowell

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now…

— Gorgias

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new…

— Ed Gillespie

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters…

— Dana Spiotta