Epideictic Oratory Quotes & Sayings

As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don't do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires ... And I think of Bloy's words: there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable. — Roland Barthes

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. — Rene Descartes

Popularity can be a real headache. — Michele Jaffe

One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives out a lesser one. A strained muscle disappears before toothache, toothache disappears before a crushed finger. He hoped - it was his only hope now - that the pain of cancer, the pain of dying , would drive out the pains of love. It did not seem likely. — Julian Barnes

One never knows when one is old for certain. — Enid Bagnold

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them. — Kelli O'Hara

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King. — Charles William Chadwick Oman

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris

Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you. — Orson Scott Card

God will give you no more than you can handle, — Clarence Clemons

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own. — Leonard Cohen