Rhetorics Quotes & Sayings

While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users. — Richard Stallman

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance. — Al Gore

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead! — Mary Pope Osborne

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga

They'll like it even less if I hear any words from them, I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer. — Charles Stross

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases. — Jane Hirshfield

It amazes me how as beings in an unpredictable world, how we glorify our brothers falling. — Xela Ffonrims

A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer:
Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave. — Kristin Cashore

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off. — Nicholas Brendon

I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loaves of bread among the poor beggars at the gate. He was sorely tried as to whether he should lose a scene so inspiring. He went to his act of mercy; and when he came back the vision remained more glorious than ever. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes. — John D'Agata

The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. — W. Somerset Maugham