We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
We not only interpret the character of events. . . we may also interpret our interpretations.
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom. . . I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother. ~
Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.