Quotes of: Eloquence Keyword

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Bono

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.

Tinie Tempah

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Dead Until Dark

I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart.

Eve of Awakening

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Robert Fitzgerald

In an era when most bands were about nothing, the Manics were about everything: an eloquent scream, a j'accuse to the entire moribund millennium.

Simon Price

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

Meg Ryan

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Fisher Ames

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Blaise Pascal

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Johann Georg Hamann

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Andrew Young

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

The Silent Teacher: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.

The Passage of Power

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Watchmen

Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.

Middlesex

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson