Debaters Council Quotes & Sayings

God says He made man out of the dust of the ground; the modernist tells us this is false - man evolved from lower life forms. — Anonymous

I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey. — Jon Corzine

I feel like every day of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction! — Nikki Reed

You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it. — David Levithan

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. — Alice Walker

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24. — John Shelby Spong

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us. — Ira Berlin

You never came out the way you came in. — Francis Spufford

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends? — Lindsay Lohan

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example. — Jim Thompson

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. — Sebastian Thrun

You are the effect of your story, that's all. — Byron Katie