Stating Quotes
86 quotes by 80 authors
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative…
— Rowan Atkinson
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real,…
— T. Harv Eker
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At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns…
— Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
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The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in…
— Heber Doust Curtis
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Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they…
— Donald E. Westlake
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less…
— Susan Sontag
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
— Eleanor Clift
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My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card…
— Steve Valentine
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It just seems like right now we’re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it’s a lousy opinion…
— Jim Norton
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
— William James
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I'm a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.
— Mitt Romney
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Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
— Dale Carnegie
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Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife…
— Thomas Lovejoy
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What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating…
— William Banting
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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at…
— Jacques Monod
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Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
— Ayn Rand
Who Wrote These Stating Quotes
80 authors contributed a total of 86 Stating Quotes, led by these top contributors: