"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Comeback Quotes #Insult Quotes #Argument Quotes

“..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...”
“We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.”
“I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.”
“There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.35, New Directions Publishing
“Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.”
“I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.”
“This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.”

Source : Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.51, Himalayan Academy Publications

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