Cicero On Oratory Quotes

#1. There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay

#2. People are going to eat you alive over this article. And the witch even included the fact of where you're currently living." "I have an ace in the hole." "What's that?" she said curiously. "I don't give a shit.

David Baldacci

#3. It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

Leslie Mann

#4. If there is a counterfeit, there is an authentic that we need to find and reclaim.

Judy Franklin

#5. The more comfortable you are, and the more you can relax, the more truthful your performance is.

Courtney Ford

#6. The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

Loretta Lynn

#8. Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

Rick Riordan

#9. Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

Ivan Pavlov

#11. A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

Philippa Perry

#12. You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Arne Jacobsen

#13. Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Rupert Brooke

#15. With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

Robert Genn

#16. If you really want to know why atheists resent religion so much, try lying to someone for 10-20 years. If you don't have that kind of time, just ask my ex-wife.

Captain Perverto