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Quotes About Objection

Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
~ Joan Blades
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
~ bergson henri ii
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
~ Bernard Bailyn
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
~ Bernard Bailyn
The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.
~ Bertrand Russell
I am not comfortable wearing a bikini in real life, why should I agree to wear one on screen? A swimsuit becomes like a dress when you wrap a sarong over it, so there was no objection to that.
~ Neha Pendse
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
~ H.L. Mencken
What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views—these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other side—but the inveterate tendency of religion to seek the enforcement of its views by the power of the government.
~ H.L. Mencken
His voice not only dripped sarcasm but seemed to have spent days marinated in it: "How noble." "Objection!
~ Harlan Coben
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
~ Andrew Dickson White
I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.
~ Barack Obama
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
~ Stan Brakhage
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
~ Bo Bennett
It has no piano part," Honoria reminded her. "I have no objection," Sarah said quickly. From behind the piano.
~ Julia Quinn
That's so unfair!" Carson protested.
~ Faye Kellerman
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to syncretism - the mixing of different thoughts, religions, cultures, and ethnicities that often ends up creating entirely new ones.
~ Bari Weiss
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
~ John Sayles
As long as I stay in training and play well, I don't see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.
~ George Best
The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can to ensure that as long at it continues, it will be as fair, transparent and objective as possible.
~ Jan Schakowsky
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
Mason also objected that permitting the president to grant pardons even in cases of treason was dangerous because he might pardon crimes "which were advised by himself.
~ Michael J. Klarman