Debator Quotes & Sayings

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening. — Ian Mortimer

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves. — Eleanor Robson Belmont

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. — Alice Miller

Just because I'm biased doesn't mean it's not true. — Jocelyn Davies

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living. — Ridgely Torrence

Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women. — Julian Critchley