Top 278 Eloquent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

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.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

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.

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

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.

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

Harley Race was eloquent in his moves - everything made sense, like a hand in a glove.

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

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!

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

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

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate Donald Trump.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.