Polemicist Quotes

#1. The difference between a debater and a polemicist is that unlike debaters, who try to seek a common ground, a polemicist intends to establish the truth of a controversial point of view while refuting the opposing point of view - there is no room for compromise.

Henrik O. Lunde

#2. I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

David Attenborough

#3. I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Ted Rall

#4. I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

Mireille Guiliano

#5. You make me see the world in new ways. You're the first thing my heart greets when I wake up in the morning. You're the last thing I see in my mind before I fall asleep.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#6. What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Amedeo Modigliani

#7. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

Regina Brett

#8. 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

#9. It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Benjamin Graham

#10. I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

#11. Dreams are necessary. Like the air, without realizing it, I, you, and we all need dreams. The dreams that guide us on what we do today because today is the answer to our dreams the other day.

Alanda Kariza

#12. Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.

Sara Sheridan