Eloquent Quotes - Page 6

• Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Voice, Political, Analysis

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• Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

  David W. Orr

  Powerful, Journey, Long

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• The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Good Man, Vices

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.72

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• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Class, Needs

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Glamour

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• Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I was interested to explore that because generally, we perceive criminals as dark, twisted, angry characters. Howard isn't any of those. He was punished for his crime, released from prison, and has lived to tell the tale.

  Rhys Ifans

  Witty, Character, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

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• I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Letting Go, Prayer, Humility

  Mary Baker Eddy (1957). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.111

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• Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Determination, Voice, Goal

  "Voices of Islam". New York Post, September 23, 2003.

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• It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Views, Opposites, Support

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableFragility"”, p.32, Random House

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• This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Gratitude, Wine, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.371, 1895.

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• Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.

  Tracy Letts

  Writing, Character, Shoes

  "Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2014.

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• And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

  Matthew Arnold

  Self, Long, Trying

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.168, Delphi Classics

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• Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, "Son, I love you," but he showed it in a thousand ways which were more eloquent than words. He rarely missed a practice, a game, a race, or any activity in which his sons participated.

  James E. Faust

  Love, Father, Son

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• Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Real, Struggle

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Teacher, Voice, What If

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• Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

  Ovid

  Speech

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• Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

  Roberto Bolano

  Flower, Lakes, Mushrooms

  "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.

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• Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Men, Understanding

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• I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Stories, Saws

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• Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

  Ovid

  Voice, Tears, Weeping

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• He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

  George Herbert

  Country, Witty, Holy

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• the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, Gripping

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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