Empty Rhetoric Quotes

#1. I don't know how it happened. Nobody does. There are only theories, empty rhetoric and doomsday prophecies. None of them are right, but none of them are completely wrong, either. They all have a grain of truth. All I know is where I was and what I was doing when it happened.

Summer Lane

#2. Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Paul Johnson

#3. It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Barbara Amiel

#4. People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

Carly Fiorina

#5. I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

Vic Fuentes

#6. Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

Gerry Harvey

#7. I don't mind being called a weirdo.

Nicki Minaj

#8. But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.

Louise Bogan

#9. Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Thomas Frank

#10. Are you drunk?" she whispered. "Only on you, duchess. Only ever on you."

-Arabella & Luc

Katharine Ashe

#11. You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

Steve Jobs

#12. It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Robert Breault

#13. I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

Bill Gates

#14. Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because we are so opposite. Yet we're perfect for each other.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#15. I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#16. The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.

Margaret Geller

#17. ...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,and hysteria currently on display don't make Trump look like he's a unique threat.

Mollie Hemingway

#18. I'm not in the business of politics.

Abby Wambach

#19. One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

Yochai Benkler

#20. Tell me you feel nothing from that. I fucking dar you.

J.M. Darhower