Classical Rhetoric Quotes

#1. The period is one of the most complicated and concepts of classical rhetoric. Nobody in the ancient world could quite decide what it meant, but they were united in the belief that it was terribly, terribly important.

Mark Forsyth

#2. Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. Marriage is not difficult ... It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult ...

K.j. Force

#4. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

#5. Complaining about life's little miseries was one of the few conversational luxuries people were allowed, and at the moment, Kaylin couldn't put herself behind complaint.

Michelle Sagara

#6. Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

Gordon Strachan

#7. I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Jonah Hill

#8. Life is a glass of champagne

Kevin Marsh

#9. Your silence holds the mysterious and beautiful secrets of your life. Feel it, love it, adore it, live it, and enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Murray Rothbard

#11. God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

Rick Warren

#12. Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.

Tony Evans

#13. No, No, NoooooooOOOOO ... You never did said that.... fucking liar and fucking faggot.

Deyth Banger