Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Charles Williams

We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.

David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

George Saintsbury

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Abdul Kalam

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

Aaron Hill

Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Augusto Pinochet

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

Ben Horowitz

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Alan Cohen

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The many fail: the one succeeds.

Albert Einstein

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

Adolf Hitler

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Joel Rassman

The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our earnings growth projections for fiscal 2006.

Michael Ballard

It is ironic that the Internet, an industry I participated in and contributed to the development of, is now potentially being blackballed as a mechanism of the delivery of the very product I'm now producing.

Per Lindberg

I think demand is very strong and I think Nokia will have a strong delivery performance in the quarter.

Robert McFarlane

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

Brandon Duckworth

I felt pretty good out there. Early on, I was a little quick with my delivery but then I got comfortable, settled in.

Shawn Estes

I feel very good about my delivery right now. I really haven't felt great all spring, but tonight is as good as I've felt.

Frans Cloete

If a substantial proportion of the 80 000 Taxi Recap vehicles due for delivery over the next five years is to be reported in the MCV segment, we could be in for even more spectacular growth in the overall over-3 500 kg GVM market.

David Chase

Hopefully the proposal will include a delivery system that shows how (the district) will deliver the projects in a more effective way than in the past.