quotes about Rhetoric
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I got my degree in rhetoric.
-- Alex BorsteinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
-- Barbara Amiel -
we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
-- Cherrie MoragaSource : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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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 -
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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 -
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We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.
-- Jerry Rubin -
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
-- John Podhoretz -
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
-- Kenneth Burke -
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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 -
We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.
-- Mark Udall -
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 -
Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
-- N.D. Wilson -
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
-- Paul GettySource : "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.
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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
-- Philip MassingerSource : Philip Massinger (1830). “The plays of Philip Massinger: adapted for family reading, and the use of young persons, by the omission of objectionable passages”, p.200
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
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The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
-- Virginia Foxx -
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
-- William Penn -
Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.
-- Eric DezenhallSource : "How to Survive a Scandal". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 10, 2014.
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If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
-- Kate Zambreno -
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
-- Baldwin Spencer -
I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.
-- Roger Goodell -
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 MercerSource : Source: www.motherjones.com