Quotes About Oration

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Louis Gustave Vapereau

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

St. Jerome

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

Richard Brookhiser

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Peter Utley

#20. You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

Vikram Seth

#21. If I had to say how I felt, I would say like a box that had been turned upside down. And the box was surprised by just how empty it was.

Grace McCleen

#22. Don't rely on labels to give you the information you need. Trust only the ingredient list and your gut.

Yancy Lael

#23. I wondered if I was like a drug addict going through withdrawal. I had all the symptoms, my physical dependence on Lila showing its ugly self.
My depression and anxiety spiked, and I craved her more than I ever had before. I needed her.

K.I. Lynn

#24. It really is a terrifying experience to be buzzed like that if you cannot see the airplane coming. You cannot hear it coming, at that speed, until it is just a fraction of a second away. Then the noise hits you like a bomb blast. You can really get someone's attention like that.

Milton O. Thompson

#25. Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Douglas Coupland

#26. 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

#27. A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Robert Hurt

#28. Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Roger Mudd

#29. The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.

Ayn Rand

#30. Speech isn't for agony.

Hortense Calisher