Objection Quotes

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Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything. — Gilles Deleuze
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a… — Richard Dawkins
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
Todayâ€™s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over Godâ€™s objection. They believed that a king would… — Ron Paul
And unlike the rest of you, he hasnâ€™t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he wonâ€™t do. Send him home. Get… — Aaron Allston
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,… — Arthur C. Clarke
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your… — Arthur Conan Doyle
You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it. — Jane Austen
Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Iâ€™ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot. — Lisa Kleypas
Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my… — Rainbow Rowell
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion… — Bertrand Russell
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect. — Peter Blair Henry
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. — P.J. O'Rourke
I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. — Jack Kent Cooke
If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so? — Lemuel K. Washburn

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