Words matter. These are the best Eloquent Quotes from famous people such as Moses, Augustus Hare, Emily Post, Ken Loach, Billy Graham, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am not eloquent.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, – the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Harley Race was eloquent in his moves – everything made sense, like a hand in a glove.
I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articulate and confident in what they’re saying. Especially coming off ‘Captain America,’ who’s very internal and intimate, I’d love to play someone who wears their emotions on their sleeves, potentially to a fault.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.
Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Silence is more eloquent than words.
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, ‘Oh my God, I’m exactly the same.’ Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Obama’s election in 2008 marked a new dawn for hundreds of millions of people looking to an eloquent, constitutional lawyer for ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ in America. However, it quickly became apparent that Obama had little substance beyond the slogans branded by his campaign.
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you’re always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it’s kind of awkward.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.
Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.
Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
The weirdest, most eloquent memory I have of the time on the kibbutz is, every Saturday night was movie night, and one of the first movies I remember seeing there was ‘Judgment at Nuremberg.’
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I’m more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
