"A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power."

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Source : Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.572, Delphi Classics

Quintilian

#Training Quotes #Speech Quotes #Impressive Quotes

“If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.”

Source : "Poems, 1934-1969".
“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Source : Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.39, Diversion Books
“There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.”
“I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken.”
“No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.”
“I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.”
“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”

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