Top 15 Rhetorical Strategy Quotes
#1. The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.
Roxane Gay
#2. Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#3. Associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
Jonah Goldberg
#4. Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.
Sam Leith
#5. What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?
Andre Dubus
#6. We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
Edward Dahlberg
#7. I always did that - listen to them over and over again until I was almost afraid to turn them off, afraid to lose the feeling the music gave me.
Staci Hart
#8. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray
#9. Get the point?" I asked, offering the boys a triumphant smile.
Gabriel, Zeb, and Dick stared at me, aghast.
"What? Sarcastic postkill comeback. Isn't that what you're supposed to do in situations like this?
Too harsh?
Molly Harper
#10. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Steve Harvey
#11. The center of the universe is everywhere.
Black Elk
#12. Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
John Sterling
#14. In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each ...
Stephen Jay Gould
