Reasoned Discourse Quotes & Sayings

Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it's been attempted. — Rona Ambrose

There's no point in making something if you're not falling in love with the people you're filming and you want them to really enjoy you being around. It would be weird if, when you're making a film, you don't think it's going to be the best ever or the worst ever - I guess it goes from one feeling to another. — Kim Longinotto

Nothing surprises me about the Lords. — Christopher Monckton

Don't see so much, Chris, your mind is too big for your body.' I got a war on between a mind that wants things my body can't give it." Priory — Ray Bradbury

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. — Lionel Trilling

If Wasp were writing field notes on herself, they'd read: plans attempted: 1000000 plans succeeded: 0 never learns. better off destroyed. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

I walked along to the double doors and stood in front of them. They were motionless now. It wasn't any of my business. So I pushed them open and looked in. — Raymond Chandler

It turns out the voter's lied. Just like the accusations that they always throw at hard-working public servants, the goddamned electorate turned out to be goddamned liars themselves. They said they respected hard work, commitment and moral courage. They said that the candidate's opponent had lost their vote the moment she gave up on reasoned discourse and calm authority. But when they went into the voting booths in their hundreds, and thousands, and tens of thousands, they'd thought, You know what, though, she's strong. She'd show them. — Naomi Alderman

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science. — J.G. Ballard

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them. — Benjamin Haydon

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it. — Peter Diamandis

Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits. — Yahtzee Croshaw

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity. — Shunroku Hata

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. — John Poindexter

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others. — Fausto Cercignani