Petitio Quotes & Sayings

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. — Roald Dahl

I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas. — Will.i.am

No one understands the way I feel about things I don't understand. — Dov Davidoff

The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods. — Walter Kirn

I have no idea, Jim," Lowen said. "I'm a doctor, not a private investigator. — John Scalzi

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. — Barry Bonds

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe. — Rex Stout

You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama. It was before even the civil rights stuff even started. You can imagine the hatred, although we didn't have it as bad as other parts of the country, I must say. — Donnie Fritts

Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team — Kare Anderson

The burning flame is a spirit of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. — Sally Quinn

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal. — John Stuart Mill