Original Oratory Quotes & Sayings

Its all spirit and its all connected ... Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual. — William Commanda

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted. — Rabindranath Tagore

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Fairy-tales are nice. — Syd Barrett

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. — Leigh Bardugo

We can't all leave this country, Bijan had told me-this is our home. The world is a large place, my magician had said when I went to him with my woes. You can write and teach wherever you are. You will be read more and heard better, in fact, once you are over there. To go or not to go? In the long run, it's all very personal, my magician reasoned. I always admired your former colleague's honesty, he said. Which former colleague? Dr. A, the one who said his only reason for leaving was because he liked to drink beer freely. I am getting sick of people who cloak their personal flaws and desires in the guise of patriotic fervor. They stay because they have no means of living anywhere else, because if they leave, they won't be the big shots they are over here; but they talk about sacrifice for the homeland. And then those who do leave claim they've gone in order to criticize and expose the regime. Why all these justifications? — Azar Nafisi

He who dares not offend cannot be honest. — Thomas Paine

I don't see hair when I see your mohawk. I see attitude. — Jonathan Dunne

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking — Henry Ford

Not Every Woman or Man can make You Crazy, but when we in Love All can Happen.
Jan Jansen — Jan Jansen

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world. — Karrie Webb

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. — James Russell Lowell

At times like this, adults need a drink — Haruki Murakami

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can. — Phillip Phillips