Donald Soper, Baron Soper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

  • The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  • I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

  • Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

  • Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

  • Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

  • The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

  • Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

  • I dare anyone to debate me on things.

  • I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.