What Rhetorical Device Is Quotes

#1. I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

Katy Lederer

#2. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

John O'Keefe

#3. What is fear of need but need itself?

Kahlil Gibran

#4. My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not.

Matt De La Pena

#5. In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#6. Irony sucks, you know?"
Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in the real world, it's a beast with steel claws and mirrors for eyes.

John Langan

#7. I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

Ice-T

#8. A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Start at the beginning

Jo Hughes

#10. At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character
an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

Alan Keyes

#11. 'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.

Shawn Amos

#12. To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

Helmut Schoeck

#13. If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

Robin Sharma

#14. It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means.

Henry Hazlitt

#15. If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest.

Pam Oliver