Quotes

I have the list of quotes and I should to match the first half of each quotation (1–10) with the second half (a–j).

1. It is better to have loved and lost. c) than never to have loved at all. – Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809– 1892)
2. Never explain – your friends do not need it. i) and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard
(1856–1915)
3. Well done is better. e) than well said. – Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
4. I’m President of the United States and.  a) I’m not going to eat any more broccoli! – George H W Bush (1924–)
5. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world. h) except take exercise, get up early or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
6. Words are, of course, the most. j) powerful drug known to mankind. – Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
7. We must learn to live together as brothers. d) or perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King, Jr (1929–1968)
8. My one regret in life is that.  b) I’m not someone else. – Woody Allen (1935–)
9. I never think of the future. f) It comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
10. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. g) I do and I understand. – Confucius (551–479 BC)

So, now I should to pick up a couple of quotations from the list and think how I can use it in the introduction to my speech.

I think I may to begin my speech with these two quotations:

3. Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

10. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. – Confucius (551–479 BC)

They are so powerful and I'm sure that they'll motivate my listeners to listen me!


And the last task is also based on quotes. I should to find the wrong words and correct them. Then I should to choose one and demonstrate how I can use it in the body of my speech.

1. All truth passes threw three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
1. All truth passes threw three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
2. He who has a “why” to live, can bare with almost any “how”. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
He who has a “why” to live, can bear with almost any “how”. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)3. Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually write. Henry Ford (1863–1947)
3. Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. Henry Ford (1863–1947)
4. Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must due what is required. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
4. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must due what is required. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
5. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever new before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
5. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
6. I don’t know why we are hear, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
6. I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
7. Be nice to people on your way up, because you meat them on your way down. Jimmy Durante (1893–1980)
7. Be nice to people on your way up, because you meet them on your way down. Jimmy Durante (1893–1980)
8. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must weight till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
8. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)


I think that my persuasive speech will contain this quotation in the body:

Lasting change is difficult to achieve because many of our habits are deeply ingrained, and certain core personality attributes may be immutable. But all habits and character traits can be altered to varying degrees. It's never too late to change and with effort and determination, it is possible to be the person you want to be, or at least someone closer to it. After all, Ludwig Wittgenstein once correctly said:

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves