#objection

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay. ↗

— Wayne White

#because #deadline #draft #essentially #hell

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#change #does #escape #every #however

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#female #god #imagery #male #masculine

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#anything #everybody #extraordinary #lots #never

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#advance #boldly #done #endless #find

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. ↗

— Richard Perle

#objectionable #others #sometimes #things

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #aware #body #credence #fancy

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#everybody #gives #objections #only #practice