"In oratory the will must predominate."

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David Hare

#Oratory Quotes #Willpower Quotes

“Lookin' back is a bad habit.”
“In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.”
“Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.”
“It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.”
“Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...”
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.237, Vintage
“Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.”
“God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co

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