Orations Speeches Quotes & Sayings

When efforts were being made for 'Gottland' to appear on the French market, I heard that there were fears that it might not attract any readers. It wasn't certain if anyone in the West would be interested in what a Pole has to say about the Czechs. I could understand that - a representative of one marginal nation writing about another marginal nation is unlikely to be a success. — Mariusz Szczygiel

You are the collared property of the most revered man in my world, in our world. I'm feared. I'm respected. He is worshipped. All of the Underground is waiting to make your acquaintance. Do you understand that?"
"No."
"You will. — Tiffany Reisz

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly. — Aaron Tippin

God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites — Sunday Adelaja

I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks.
His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

A nation without heroes is nothing. — Roberto Clemente

My mother was a good Catholic
she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic. — Sue Monk Kidd

Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both. — Mark Helprin

His eyes flew back at me and I could see whole civilizations, cities that he'd built and cherished and planned for, like the model of an entire world, all crumbling. — Lyndsay Faye

15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; [1] yet I will argue my ways to his face. — Anonymous