Quotes Tagged With :rhetoric

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers....

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses....

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical....

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.....

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate....

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all....

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs....

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.