Debatable Quotes

#1. It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

George D. Prentice

#2. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#3. The degree to which language exactly mirrors reality is debatable.

Rictor Norton

#4. Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#5. Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

John Ralston Saul

#6. There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Marion Nestle

#7. Blurbs don't work anymore!" was another. "You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed at best debatable.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Rob Roberge

#9. How rich 'rich enough' is in a city like Delhi is debatable.

Neena Dass

#10. A free and independent press is generally considered essential for democracy, both to raise timely questions about debatable government policies and to report challenges to those policies when they fail.

W. Lance Bennett

#11. If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

Aron Nimzowitsch

#12. Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Henry Spencer

#13. Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.

Jeffery Deaver

#14. Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

David Cone

#15. It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

Bobby Charlton

#16. There's math, and everything else is debatable!

Chris Rock

#17. Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. a packet of Jaffa Cakes is a binary object, by which I mean it has only two states: unopened or empty. There have been rumoured sightings of half packets, but the evidence is debatable.

Marty Jopson

#19. It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Kevin Smith

#20. Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind ofpeace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most elementary of rights: the right to his own life. Murder is not debatable.
-Theodore Roosevelt

R.C. Sproul

#21. Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

John Burnside

#22. Remember that emotion is not a debatable phenomenon. It is an authentic reflection of our subjective experience, one that is best served by attending to it.

Curt Thompson

#23. Hunger is not debatable.

Harry Hopkins

#24. So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
Over everything debatable and combatable
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

Ogden Nash

#25. Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Thomas Griffith

#26. It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

Vance Havner

#27. Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

John Shelby Spong

#28. Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#29. The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.

Noam Chomsky

#30. It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Criss Jami

#31. When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

Jason Fried

#32. Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations.

Lauren Groff

#33. Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.

Jim Carrey

#35. If my aim is to prove I am "enough," the project goes on to infinity - because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

Nathaniel Branden

#36. But why?"
"You goddamn fool, do you think I consider their question debatable?

Ayn Rand

#37. You called her a cunt," I reminded him.
"He threw out a hand, his brows shooting up. "Were you not just here? She is a cunt."
This was not debatable. I didn't even know why I brought it up.

Kristen Ashley

#38. One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is
that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all
other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being
overthrown by newly discovered facts.

Albert Einstein

#39. That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

Bainbridge Colby

#40. Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to found our social philosophy on any theory which is debatable but has not been debated.

G.K. Chesterton

#41. His affection for his car was a fine debatable line between uncomfortable obsession and a deep love.

Rebecca Ethington

#42. Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Merle Haggard

#43. To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

George Saintsbury

#44. I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

Lisa Kleypas

#45. The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change your mind.

Gene Siskel

#47. No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

Bruce R. McConkie

#48. I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.

Philip Palmer