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oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory matter politician
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. Aldous Huxley
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
savages needs scales
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
savages manners
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Benjamin Franklin
savages states refusal
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. Arthur Brisbane
savages body clubs
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute? Aleister Crowley
savages foundation essentials
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery. Andrei Sakharov
savages handsome way
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. David Gemmell
savages christianity conversion
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. George Bernard Shaw
savages backyards fairy
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right. Kim Harrison
savages
Savage is he who saves himself. Leonardo da Vinci