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“In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.Th...”
“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”
“Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clev...”
“In prayer, God doesnt want your words, he wants your heart. He doesnt track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.”
“in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesnt track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.”
“I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.”
“Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”
“poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.”
“Eloquence. We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.”
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.”
“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only ...”
“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.”
“The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
“Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”
“True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.”
“In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.”
“in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.”
