making people listen Quotes

I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen.

″ ‘The people without passion are the ones who always say no’, he’d said moments before, and I’d turned, stunned, to listen.”

“Rhetoric falls into three divisions, determined by the three classes of listeners to speeches. For of the three elements in speech-making--speaker, subject, and person addressed--it is the last one, the hearer, that determines the speech’s end and object.”