Disputants Quotes

#1. So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

John Godfrey Saxe

#2. Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.

Howard Raiffa

#3. Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

Sara Coleridge

#4. True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Honore De Balzac

#5. The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

Voltaire

#6. [F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.

Bertrand Russell

#7. These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Edward Gibbon

#8. How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Aristotle.

#9. I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Alexander Pope

#11. Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

#12. I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

David Cross

#13. Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.

Tom Standage

#14. The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider ... the riders contend for its possession.

Martin Luther

#15. You are a human being and it is difficult for you to deliver yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

John Milton

#17. What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!

Andrew Ryan

#18. The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

Rufus Wainwright

#19. ...evil is not always opposed to religion. Indeed, when evil appropriates the ideals and institutions of religion, the results are far more damaging than when individuals carry out self-consciously evil acts.

Bill Ellis

#20. Woo-hoo, everyone elses lives sucked ass too. It didn't really make Arias problems any easier.

Sara Shepard

#21. All things are by Him and for Him. He utters Himself also for His own delight and sees that He is good. He is His own begotten and what proceeds from Him is Himself. Blessed be He!

C.S. Lewis