Eloquentia Quotes

#1. [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Tacitus

#2. You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Winston Churchill

#3. I love a black wedding dress.

Vera Wang

#4. The trees' bare bony fingers
point crookedly
towards Heaven or Hell
or worse than that, towards nowhere.

Stephanie Hemphill

#5. I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

Tullian Tchividjian

#6. Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

Bart Decrem

#7. Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#8. Hunger is an escort to the deeper things of [God].

Misty Edwards

#9. Hey, I'm an art lover," protested Ramirez. "I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Beverly's smile froze. "Yes, quite.

Linda Morris

#10. I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Kevin Powers

#11. I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#12. I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

Fawn Hall

#13. Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

Susan Orlean