American Rhetoric Quotes

#1. In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

Peter Welch

#3. All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!

James Van Praagh

#4. As I was sipping the hot liquid, I realized that I had developed a kind of liking for this little man on the verge of death.

Haruki Murakami

#5. The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

J. D. Hayworth

#6. Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct.

Steven Brust

#7. The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

Samael Aun Weor

#8. Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.

Jeff Greenwald

#9. The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

Dave Brat

#10. That look you get after every bone in your face has been broken at least once and then allowed to set without medical attention

Josh Bazell

#11. Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything.

Stephen Harper

#12. When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.

Pat Conroy

#13. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Susan Sontag

#14. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

Asa Don Brown

#15. We know from our own shortcomings, towards other people, how little an oath is worth. And we have deliberately believed them when they came from her, the very person to whose interest it has always been to lie to us, and whom, moreover, we did not select for her virtues.

Marcel Proust

#16. Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

John Podhoretz

#17. The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

Mariano Rajoy

#18. We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.

Dana Goldstein

#19. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

#20. The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

Virginia Foxx

#21. Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger

Charles Dickens

#22. Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.

Blair Richmond