Action Bronson Quotes

I've been known to preach.

I don't want to preach to people.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try cases. I also heard of lot of Baptist preachers in little churches saying crazy things with such conviction.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.