Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Samuel Johnson

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Plutarch

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Russell Brand

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Rose Macaulay

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Rich Mullins

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Voltaire

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

William Carey

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Rick Riordan

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Sam Walton

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

Gen Musharraf

He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system,

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Wietse Venema

Internally, Postfix does use multi-threading, for example, for its scheduler program that hands the mail queue requests to the mail delivery agents.

Doug Rockel

If you order a paperback book, slower delivery time via the mail or UPS is fine. But if you've ordered a fur coat, then FedEx is more of an option.

Florence Mumba

In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the true democracy we want.

Felipe Alou

His delivery left him for one or two pitches, but he regained it right away. That's a good sign.

Tim Hudson

I'm happy where I am right now. I'll be ready for Opening Day. I'm just here to get in shape and get my delivery down.

Sergei Kupriyanov

If there is no contract, gas delivery to Ukraine's users will be stopped at 10 o'clock in the morning on January 1.

Charles Jennings

I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic haircut, his trudging priestly delivery and his evident self-love, your main instinct is to flip right over to BBC1...