Rhetoric Quotes

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

In a democracy government is the God.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.