Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
“It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People need the financial sector to be safe; people also need the financial sector to go through a massive phase of innovation.… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application;… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“The discipline that aims to be objective and scientific can be used to rationalize religious-ethnic prejudiced and justify imperial ambitions. Israelis, Palestinians… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Using that kind of scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate. You [Donald Trump] should meet with some of the women that I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him,… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image