A Quote by Laozi

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Eiji Yoshikawa

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Bennett Cerf

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

Lee Hazlewood

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

Anthony Trollope

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

George Henry Lewes

A large part of me becoming a performer was a make-or-break way of getting over that stutter. I sometimes wonder if, subliminally, that was part of the reason I got into the business, and the more I became a performer and grew in confidence, the less pronounced the stutter became.

Paul Young

Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.

Peter Behrens

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

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Charlton Heston

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

Dave Pelzer

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Pat Conroy

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Roger Tory Peterson

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

R. C. Sproul

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Henry David Thoreau

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