“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“All I was capable of, even deep in misery, was rhetoric and belles-lettres, it was all talk.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
They [American Muslim community] need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches… — Albert Ellery Bergh Copy Share Image
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image