Respectfully Disagree Quotes

#1. The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

Werner Herzog

#2. An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Zubin Mehta

#3. The Sushi Warehouse in Roissy 2E offered an exceptional range of Norwegian mineral waters.

Michel Houellebecq

#4. He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#5. The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.

Ali Smith

#6. Evie " came his faint whisper "I'm going to your mother see ... she's got 'em to leave a back door open ... so I can steal into 'eaven.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. They've never had to make any real decisions at all. Their lives are easy and unremarkable. They're not awake.

Matthew Quick

#9. Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and non-scientists, between Jews and non-Jews, between artists, writers and scientists, including medical scientists.

Eric Kandel

#10. The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Edward Gibbon

#11. There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

E. Lockhart

#12. Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action.

Tameichi Hara

#13. Dream hurts; yet we never stop dreaming; just like the way love hurts but we still love to love

Munia Khan

#14. If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

Barack Obama

#15. The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Max Aitken