quotes about Retorts

last updated: November 28, 2023

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
-- Luther Burbank

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A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
-- Roger Scruton

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“Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.”
“The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.”
“There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.”
“My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.”

Source : Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10
“I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.”
“You know the slow-motion walking shot in 'Reservoir Dogs?' That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.”

Source : "The Untouchable: Author Tom Folsom on Joey Gallo". Interview with Jean Scheidnes, wwd.com. May 28, 2009.
“You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.”
“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1966). “The History and Present State of Electricity: With Original Experiments. Reprinted from the 3d Ed., London, 1755, with an Appendix Containing Two Additional Papers of Original Experiments by the Author, and a New Introd. by Robert E. Shofield”
“I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.”

Source : Menno Simons (1871). “The Complete Works of Menno Simons”, p.285
“The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.”

Source : Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.133, The Mountaineers Books