Martin Luther Quotes

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

I've always felt like Alice in Wonderland when it comes to fashion. I keep falling further down the rabbit hole until I'm dizzy with options. It's overwhelming, so I have one rule: I wear whatever excites me.

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

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

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?

Are you okay?" Daniel whispered, his voice soft, his lips so close to hers. "Yes." She could feel the beating of his wings. "You caught me." "I will always catch you when you fall.

True invective requires great imagination.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.