Doctrinaires Quotes & Sayings

Under the law, even the best failed. Under grace, even the worst can be saved! — Joseph Prince

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. — Lukas Foss

Every dude in here has had a fantasy about Jessica Simpson. Here's mine: Jessica, hold your sister Ashlee so I can kick her in the throat. — Dave Attell

... he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

'Yeah, that's his girlfriend. Jennifer Rodriguez,' I inform her. She eyes me and sees that I am none to thrilled about it either. Nothing like a hot woman to make two chubby girls feel like they're having a bonding moment. — Karina Halle

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism. — Theodore Roosevelt

When I was a Marxist, I did not hold my opinions as a matter of faith but I did have the conviction that a sort of unified field theory might have been discovered. The concept of historical and dialectical materialism was not an absolute and it did not have any supernatural element, but it did have its messianic element in the idea that an ultimate moment might arrive, and it most certainly had its martyrs and saints and doctrinaires and (after a while) its mutually excommunicating rival papacies. It also had its schisms and inquisitions and heresy hunts. — Christopher Hitchens

We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman. — Robert A. Heinlein

Joffre was adept at taking advice, and submitted more or less consciously to the reigning doctrinaires of the Operations Bureau. They formed what a French military critic called "a church outside which there was no salvation and which could never pardon those who revealed the falsity of its doctrine. — Barbara W. Tuchman

May your balls rot like fruit in the sun, and your manhood wither at the root! — Elizabeth Vaughan

What must it feel like to be an adult and still discovering the world's pleasures? And — Hanya Yanagihara

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live. — Mark Twain

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile. — Theodore Roosevelt

But isn't potential someone's capacity to develop their skills with effort over time? And that's just the point. How can we know where effort and time will take someone? Who — Carol S. Dweck

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. — Albert Camus

I've grown up alongside Corr. My father rode him and my father lost him, and then I found him again. He's the only family I have. — Maggie Stiefvater