Contending For Truth Quotes & Sayings

It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms. — David Bentley Hart

Parking garages are like that person drinking their soda with a straw: They just sit there and suck. — Gregor Collins

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men. — Catherine Hardwicke

That's how it'll go down. Those will be the last words of the last one left. I am human. — Rick Yancey

Pissed off is not the same as well armed," he agreed, leading the way into the house. "I'll remember that. — Faith Hunter

Every past used to be a future once upon a time — Munia Khan

It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error. — J.E.B. Spredemann

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves. — Gloria Steinem

If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point. — Elizabeth Rundle Charles

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head. — Tori Amos

A tiny seed of a giant tree must not behave like a giant tree; a tiny seed is a tiny seed yet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Despite our difficulties, we had become close, and it is hard to leave such things behind. — Patrick Rothfuss

Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare

Time's glory is to calm contending kings To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light To stamp the seal of time in aged things To wake the morn and sentinel the night To wrong the wronger till he render right To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours And smear with dust their glittering golden towers - Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece — Ken Follett

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare. — Steven Wright

Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan. — Chuck Comeau