Devil S Advocate Quotes

#1. If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

Esme Raji Codell

#2. I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

Charles Olson

#3. I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

Seth MacFarlane

#4. So you're getting back together with her? Just like that? Muriel asks.
"Not 'just like that'..." "How then?" Muriel enjoys playing devil's advocate. "For starters, it will have to be long distance for a while..." She doesn't let up. "For a while? Have you booked the U-Haul already?

Harper Bliss

#5. Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Ingrid Weir

#6. Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Criss Jami

#7. No one played devil's advocate, a figure that every group needs to avoid foolish or even disastrous decisions like this. It was reminiscent of President John Kennedy's "disastrous" decision to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.11

Philip G. Zimbardo

#8. Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

James S.A. Corey

#9. John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

Douglas Brinkley

#10. People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Cecily Strong

#11. I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

Frank Zappa

#12. As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel.

Anita Brookner

#13. The essayist ... can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

E.B. White

#14. That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

Doug Martsch

#15. A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each crime becomes more brutal, she is forced to play devil's advocate as she chooses the next target.
WITNESS

Caroline Mitchell

#16. If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them, and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skilful devil's advocate can conjure up. ' (Mill, 1859:37)

Anonymous

#17. Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

Marilyn Manson

#18. What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Cornelia Funke

#19. The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Seth Godin

#20. Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday if left on their own. Thursday is the most dangerous day of the week.

Marty Stern

#21. The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

Emo Philips

#22. In Hebrew, satan means an advocate of the alternative, the one who makes the arguments you don't know how to refute." Michelangelo looked to the old Jew, still grinning wickedly in the corner. "That satan is my best friend.

Adam Gidwitz

#23. A very simple way to guard your soul is to ask yourself, Will this situation block my soul's connection to God?

John Ortberg

#24. At this time, all students are to report to the greenhouse."
Scowling, I waved my arm through the spell. It swirled like smoke before dissolving. "Freaking drama queen," I muttered. "How hard would it have been to announce that last night? Or to just do the voice thing?

Rachel Hawkins

#25. Skin to skin
Salt on your skin
Wave after wave
An eruption of emotions.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#26. How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

Vincent Van Gogh

#27. I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

Bebe Neuwirth

#28. I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Melanie Griffith