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oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory matter politician
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. Aldous Huxley
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory firsts action
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action. Plutarch
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
oratory speech firsts
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
speech literature variables
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Clinton Van Doren
speech might able
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen
speech remember omniscience
Remember that thought is speech before God. Charles Spurgeon
speech nations
Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation. Edward Norton
speech ifs
If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. Camille Paglia
speech green cold
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. Bennett Cerf
speech easy young
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners. Anthony Trollope
speech action empty
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes
speech remember carnegie
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
vacuums done bathroom
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done. David Sedaris
vacuums sometimes stills
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. Dennis Ritchie
vacuums speculation
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Baruch Spinoza
vacuums loud cleaners
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us. David J. C. MacKay
vacuums head-of-state statesmen
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. Clare Boothe Luce
vacuums matter consciousness
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it. David Bohm
vacuums
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum... R. D. Laing
vacuums cracks behavior
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. Kay Redfield Jamison
vacuums secrecy paranoid
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. Max Brooks