Zitat des Tages über Beredt / Eloquent:
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
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.
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?
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
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.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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.
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.
I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.
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.