Rethoric Quotes & Sayings

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them. — Patrick Ness

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony. — Mary Baker Eddy

Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention — Gerard Hauser

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City. — Peter Jurasik

It tears my heart just as my heart is torn when on certain nights I watch the full moon shining on the lagoon from an unclouded sky. There is always pain in the contemplation of perfect beauty. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business. — Julie London

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. — Adrian Belew

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them? — Ray Bradbury

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I — Robin Hobb

We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again — Jamie Tworkowski

Will bear witness to Your merciful acts; throughout the day I will speak of all the ways You deliver, although, I admit, I do not know the entirety of either. — Anonymous

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows. — Suzy Kassem

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. — Robert M. Pirsig

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself. — Luis Gerardo Mendez

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all. — David Bohm

One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children. — David O. McKay

Bravery shared doesn't act like bravado among her own. — Linda Robinson