Rearguard Quotes

#1. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

Hugh Mackay

#3. A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Joseph Alsop

#4. A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't ... But I am not a bully.

Chris Christie

#6. For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants

Jacques Anquetil

#7. I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

Daniel Craig

#8. No woman in the history of humanity has ever found a comfortable way of dressing herself after sex.

Kay Hadashi

#9. If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

Beyonce Knowles

#11. The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

Christopher Lee

#12. Human beings are not black and white.

Hugh Panaro