Oration 2 Quotes

#1. Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Thomas Hobbes

#2. It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Plutarch

#3. When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer - no matter how eloquent the oration.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#4. A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. But if God is the flowers and the trees
And the hills and the sun and the moonlight,
Then I believe in him,
Then I believe in him all the time,
And my whole life is an oration and a mass,
And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.

Alberto Caeiro

#6. I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
thou learn a prayer without book.

William Shakespeare

#7. School doesn't teach you the three most important things in the world: how to have relationships, how to raise children and, most importantly, why on earth you'd want to be in this world in the first place.

Clive Stafford Smith

#8. The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession of brilliant phrases, book titles, dying cadences that breathed life, pure alertness, along the spine.

Ian McEwan

#9. The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.

Robert Scholes

#10. Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Edward Dahlberg

#11. For nothing is so pleasant to men as talking of other people's business, especially under the influence of affection or hatred, which often almost entirely blinds us to the truth.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#12. Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Woods oration-2008)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#13. I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

Michael Keaton

#14. Everyone wants to be the survivor, but they seldom realize how very high the cost is.

B.G. Harlen

#15. An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Peter Utley

#16. This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

John Adams

#17. All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...

Dorothy Osborne

#18. it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most

Scott Farris

#19. They bear their sorrow in the strength of him who bears them up, who bore the whole suffering of the world upon the cross.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. Take care of someone else. Be there for someone else. Bless someone else. A happy life is about GIVING more than you TAKE.

Mandy Hale

#21. But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Richard Brookhiser

#23. My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

St. Jerome

#24. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Louis Gustave Vapereau

#25. I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

Victor Hugo

#26. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson