Quotes About Being A Devil's Advocate

#1. To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.

J.R. Moehringer

#2. 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

#3. Those that were up themselves, kept others low;
Those that were low themselves, held others hard;
He suffered them to ryse or greater grow;
But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

Edmund Spenser

#4. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Albert Einstein

#5. A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Alfred North Whitehead

#6. The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Vivienne Westwood

#7. The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

Donna De Varona

#8. Film for me became how I related to everything else.

Harry Knowles

#9. Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be.

Margaret Atwood

#10. There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

Vera Farmiga

#11. Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines

Steve McConnell

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

Cecily Strong

#13. I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being ... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

O.R. Melling

#15. See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.

Rahul Gandhi

#16. Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.

Tyga

#17. The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

Mary Howitt