Combated Quotes

#1. Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. He seemed forceful, and she combated that with a calming nature. She was a quiet listener, and he always seemed to have something to say.

Kiera Cass

#3. The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

H.L. Mencken

#4. World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Helen Keller

#5. All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Nikola Tesla

#6. What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views - these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other side - but the inveterate tendency of religion to seek the enforcement of its views by the power of the government.

H.L. Mencken

#7. We live in an illogical world, driven by reason, which cannot be combated with emotion.

Christine Edwards

#8. There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

Dorothea Dix

#9. One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

John Assaraf

#10. We live in an illogical word, which is driven by reason and cannot be combated with emotion.

Kate Wars

#11. The simplifications of hatred and prejudice, which embitter and perpetuate the Algerian conflict, must be combated on a daily basis, and one man cannot do the job alone. What is required is a movement, a supportive press, and constant action.

Albert Camus

#12. An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#14. You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

Anthony Michael Hall

#15. I like Dr.Ducks Ax Wax ...

Joe Beck

#16. I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

Angela Merkel

#17. The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental.

Thomas Gately Briody

#18. Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

Zoe Kravitz

#19. You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.

Anita Roddick

#20. Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

Caleb Cushing

#21. I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

Carolyn Murphy

#22. The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Bert Hellinger