Rhetorical Quotes
Rhetorical Quote of the day
How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.
Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?
Well, " a female voice said. "What have we here?""Here, " Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.