Objection Quotes
122 quotes by 96 authors
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I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but little occasion for.…
— Michael Faraday
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The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
— H. L. Mencken
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
— William Hazlitt
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All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
— Samuel Johnson
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The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of…
— James Madison
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
— W. S. Gilbert
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You can register a political objection in a number of ways.
— Nicholson Baker
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
— Agnes Smedley
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I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of…
— Muhammad Asad
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I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies…
— Joseph Murray
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the…
— Isaac Newton
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I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble…
— Criss Jami
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Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
— E. M. Forster
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