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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. -- William Jennings Bryan
Silence is more eloquent than words. -- Thomas Carlyle
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent. -- Ovid
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. -- George Eliot
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. -- Billy Graham
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so. -- George Henry Lewes
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? -- Thomas Carlyle
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. -- Gloria Naylor
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. -- Meg Ryan
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. -- Fisher Ames
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. -- Augustus Hare
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. -- Emily Post
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. -- Thomas Hobbes
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. -- Aldous Huxley
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. -- Walter Murch
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums. -- Louis Leakey
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life. -- Mira Bartok
I am not eloquent. -- Moses
I am not the most eloquent guy in the world. -- Dave Pelzer
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent. -- Martial
Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day. -- Michael Specter
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton. -- Bill Bruford
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. -- Josh Billings
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. -- Eric Johnston
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. -- Eric Johnston
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. -- Alfred Nobel
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. -- Saint Ignatius
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -- George Washington
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct. -- Honore de Balzac
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. -- Bono
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? -- Thomas Carlyle
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts. -- John Lahr
Nothing is as eloquent as nothing. -- David Mitchell
Movements are as eloquent as words. -- Isadora Duncan
The most eloquent seems to stutter. -- Laozi
Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks. -- Mason Cooley
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming. -- Beth Broderick
Every man is eloquent once in his life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never heard a more eloquent silence. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion. -- Marc Garneau
Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. -- Roger Tory Peterson
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent. -- Ovid
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself. -- Ovid
... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying. -- Pat Conroy
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent. -- Charlton Heston
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. -- August Wilson
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent. -- Mary Russell Mitford
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy. -- George Herbert
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim. -- Albert Camus
A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. -- Eugene Atget
Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy. -- Jolene Ivey
Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.] -- Ovid
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind. -- Banana Yoshimoto
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry. -- Charles Spurgeon
Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds. -- Paul Horn
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. -- Sri Chinmoy
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. -- Joseph Joubert
Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world. -- Madeleine Sophie Barat
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? -- Khalil Gibran
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. -- David Mitchell
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. -- Henry Fielding
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] -- Horace
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? -- Publilius Syrus
A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them ... -- Jane Porter
I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. -- Mark Lawrence
The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise. -- James Hervey
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. -- Al Kooper
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent. -- Lawrence Fagg
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love -- Soren Kierkegaard
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker. -- Bill Bright
I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart. -- Alisa Hope Wagner
In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered. -- Ovid
To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god. -- Kane Morgan
Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent. -- Oleta Adams
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. -- Charlaine Harris
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen. -- William Robert Woodman
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. -- Martial
Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One. -- Saadi
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. -- Matthew Arnold
Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country. -- Joe Lieberman
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. -- Saint Ignatius
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations. -- Domenico Gnoli
A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. -- Ted Malloch
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. -- E. B. White
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. -- R. C. Sproul
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be. -- Suzanne Vega
Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate [Donald] Trump. -- Chrissy Teigen
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice. -- Samuel Smiles
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use. -- Michel de Montaigne
Remember, while words can be powerful, eloquent, and lasting, it is our committed action that will ultimately serve as the defining factor of our relationships. -- Steve Maraboli
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. -- Albert Camus
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. -- Baruch Spinoza
O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue. -- Moses
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse. -- Susan Abulhawa
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action. -- Thucydides
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. -- Aldous Huxley
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience. -- Henry David Thoreau
Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that. -- Hal Holbrook
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views. -- Orson Scott Card
You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm. -- Robert Jordan

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