Debating Quotes - page 2

Darwin's theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it's been under attack since day one. That's just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we'd still be debating Newton with idiots too. (Charlie Brooker)
If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide. View quote
Philip Larkin
Vote!' [Saint] George rolled his eyes. 'This is an assassination, not a debating society. View quote
Tom Holt
Being a people pleaser is a fruitless task; love is love. There's no debating that concept. View quote
Frances Bean Cobain
You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating? View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Christian life is action: not a speculating, not a debating, but a doing. One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts - lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. View quote
Hans Rosling
It boggles the mind that nearly two centuries after Darwin, and 80 years after John Scopes was put on trial, this country is still debating the validity of evolution. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation. View quote
Judith Martin
We need our highest judicial body to stop this childish bickering and get back to debating the kinds of weighty constitutional issues that have absorbed the court in recent years, such as whether a city can legally force an exotic dancer to cover her entire nipple, or just the part that pokes out. (Dave Barry)
Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place. View quote
Nehemiah Adams
We are not a debating club,” Franklin said. "Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible. View quote
Jack McDevitt
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits. View quote
Winston Churchill
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. View quote
Alice Paul
We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. View quote
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church. (John Tesh)
I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. View quote
Juan Williams
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. View quote
Karl Radek
I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange. View quote
Tuppence Middleton