Quotes About Categorically

The first escape route in the problem of evil is propounded by those who protest that God cannot exist because there is too much evil evident in life. They see no logical contradiction within their system since they do not have to prove that evil coexists with a good Creator. Evil exists; therefore, the Creator does not. That is categorically stated. But

Sailing Direction for Antarctica, these winds are described categorically:

If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.

Good deeds are impositions; that's why I categorically abhor them.

Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times a thought can be refuted , yes, but not retracted . (p. 179)

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of your child you still could in what he had become. Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?

Yet if you scratched very deep at that idea of pattern (which apparently he had never taken the trouble to do), you hit an emptiness so dark that it destroyed, categorically, anything you'd ever looked at or thought of as light.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

My positions are very clear: I never hide the fact that I categorically oppose a Palestinian state inside our country

I said, "UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead." This gave me the dubious distinction of being the first person of cabinet rank in the G8 group of countries to state categorically, without any reservation, that UFOs are real.