Polemics Report Quotes

#1. Out here, in the cold, with the moon and the huge stars overhead and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

Christopher Rice

#3. One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict
the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.

Patricia Geary

#5. It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.

Sharon Cameron

#6. Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.

William Howard Taft

#7. A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

Nicole Galland

#9. Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Edward Abbey

#10. Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya