Top 23 Orations Quotes
#1. He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag
Harry Truman
#2. The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.
Thomas Paine
#3. There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
John Milton
#4. It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
Orson Welles
#5. Princeton applicants had to know Virgil, Cicero's orations, and Latin grammar and also had to be 'so well acquainted with Greek as to render any part of the four Evangelists in that language into Latin or English.
Ron Chernow
#6. Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted that they would be given decent funerals; he gave the orations. Do you have any idea how longs it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?
Robert Jordan
#7. If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
Vladimir Lenin
#8. The sort of fellow whose funeral's orations are all on the theme of Well, that's a relief.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#9. Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.
Jennifer Crusie
#10. Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs.
Seth Klarman
#11. A dense wall of greenery bordered it, ... an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty's evil witch weep with jealousy.
Ilona Andrews
#12. Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
Andre Holland
#13. Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine
#14. Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work..
Julie B. Beck
#15. The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#17. Present company excepted is such an elegantly insulting term, I think, given it clearly means present company especially. It's up there with with all due respect, meaning with no respect whatsoever.
Mhairi McFarlane
#18. We can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.
Gregory David Roberts
#19. I waved to him, and he waved back. I tried not to think about how Chad couldn't see me doing that now. Helen Keller said that when you lose one sense, another one grows stronger. But by the time Chad learned how to hear me waving, it would be too late.
Jennifer Gooch Hummer
#20. Almost all life depends on probabilities.
Voltaire
#21. I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.
Robin Stern
#22. I really enjoy making breakfast and dinner. But breakfast is a good excuse to have some dessert before dinner.
Tia Mowry
#23. I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa
