Rhetoric famous quotes

I got my degree in rhetoric.
-- Alex Borstein

#Degrees #Rhetoric

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
-- Barbara Amiel

#World #Empty #Rhetoric

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
-- Cherrie Moraga

#Jobs #Poetry #Rhetoric

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Love #Heart #Rhetoric

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.
-- Conrad Aiken

#Time #Heart #Rhetoric

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Power #Persuasive #Rhetoric

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.
-- Gerald R. Ford

#Technique #Firsts #Rhetoric

Vision is not political rhetoric.
-- Jean Chretien

#Political #Vision #Rhetoric

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Risk #Importance #Rhetoric

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
-- John Fund

#Rhetoric #Evidence

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
-- John Podhoretz

#Political #Guilty #Rhetoric

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
-- Kenneth Burke

#Persuasion #Rhetoric

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Study #Bless #Rhetoric

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.
-- Mark Udall

#Climate #Action #Rhetoric

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?
-- Matt Gonzalez

#Running #Action #Rhetoric

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
-- N.D. Wilson

#Narrative #Rhetoric

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
-- Paul Getty

#I Have Learned #Observation #Rhetoric

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
-- Philip Massinger

#Accusation #Rhetoric #Rough

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
-- Samuel R. Delany

#Rhetoric #Discourse

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
-- Shirley Chisholm

#Revolution #Rhetoric

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
-- Virginia Foxx

#People #Democrat #Rhetoric

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
-- William Penn

#Truth And Beauty #Rhetoric #Ill

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.
-- Eric Dezenhall

#Operations #Crisis #Rhetoric

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
-- Kate Zambreno

#Writing #Narrative #Rhetoric

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
-- Baldwin Spencer

#Boots #There Comes A Time #Rhetoric

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.
-- Roger Goodell

#Made #Caught #Rhetoric

My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.
-- James Mercer

#Hate #Political #Rhetoric