Eloquent Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.
The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body. — David Foster Wallace

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can feel the darkness inside him. There's something wrong with him. His outer beauty hides something monstrous underneath. — Anna Zaires

It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight — Carlos E. Asay

Anybody can be cool...but Awesome takes practice. — Lorraine Peterson

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm considered a health nut amongst vampires. I usually feed only on vegetarians. — Johnny B. Truant

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man - a man of restless and versatile intellect - who ... plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. — Thomas Henry Huxley

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. — Ellen G. White

Whoever has hatred toward someone is that hatred. — Belsebuub

The Losing of Love ... Like discovering a shard of heaven's handwriting in the snowflake that has landed upon your hand, desperately wishing you could give such beauty to your best friend before it melts away. And what you are left with is an exquisite regret - the eloquent conspiracy of memory - of the moment lived and the moment wished for that never will arrive. — Carew Papritz

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, "Then it was a good service?"
Lincoln responded, "No." The aide protested,
"But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant."
"Yes," replied Lincoln, "but he didn't challenge us to do any great thing. — Abraham Lincoln

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created. — David Spangler

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? — Khalil Gibran

I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody. — Sirio Maccioni

The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected — Neville Goddard

There's a duality in every man and every woman. — Raquel Welch

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it. — FKA Twigs