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Quotes About Objection

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.
~ Jim Norton
At first Welsh just stared, as did Ryan. But when the meaning of what this room might hold for him formed in Welsh's mind, he protested with a wide-eyed grunt.
~ Ted Dekker
CUNNINGHAM: Defense calls Sigmund Freud, Your Honor. BAILIFF: Name! SIGMUND FREUD: Doctor Sigmund Shlomo Freud. CUNNINGHAM: Doctor Freud, would it be accurate to say you qualify as an expert in the field of modern psychiatry? SIGMUND FREUD: Fräulein—I AM modern psychiatry. EL-FAYOUMY: Objection, Your Honor!—the witness is boasting! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Overruled!
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (re: the writ): Cunningham, I do not like it when lawyers go over my head. CUNNINGHAM: You gave me no choice. EL-FAYOUMY: Objection, Your Honor!!! As human beings, we always have choice! Motion to strike! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Mr. El-Fajita, you are aware that the trial hasn't actually begun yet, right?
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?'
~ F. Murray Abraham
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~ Milton Friedman
Why not?" she asks petulantly. "Give me one good reason we shouldn't." "Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss a very … small and … lively gerbil?" I tell her. "I don't know." "Yes?" she says. "And?" "With braces?" I finish, shrugging.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Whenever I hear an objection to the male gaze—hoping that it will . . . what? Go away, get rerouted, become contained—I automatically think, Are people really this deluded and deranged or haven't they had a date in the last ten years?
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Hurry up and go back and come over here quick, you cock suckers." . . .[Counsel for the claimants objected unsuccessfully to this language.] What Akipa meant to have them understand was that he had no fear of them; that he despised them. The Indians had no curse words, or oaths, and they used this expression to express their contempt.
~ Gary Clayton Anderson
Olem disappeared into the grove with Vlora and came back a moment later, alone. "Well?" Tamas asked. "She's objecting strenuously to the deal." "Would she rather go back with them?" "That's what she says." "I never wanted daughters, Olem. You can quote me on that.
~ Brian McClellan
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
~ Marc Faber
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~ Milton Friedman
No matter how "right on" the upper-middle class was, no matter the social-justice proclamations of my former liberal, affluent urban "tribe," no one really expressed any objection to this unequal distribution of risk and harm.
~ Naomi Wolf
FatherMichael: OK we should get on with this; I don't want to be late for my 2 o'clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these two should not be married? LonelyLady: Yes. SureOne: I could give more than one reason. Buttercup: Hell yes. SoOverHim: DON'T DO IT!
~ Cecelia Ahern
I object to that conversation! interposed the old woman. I was not capable enough to hear what I said, and what is said out of my hearing is not evidence.
~ Thomas Hardy
A 'sack posset' - a kind of wine cup - was drunk by the couple and a piece of the bride cake broken over their heads. Margaret objected to the latter because it left crumbs in the bedclothes.
~ Kathleen Jones
In greeting, we Southerners say "hey" not "hi." To alert, draw the attention of, or show objection to another, we also say "hey," but air is expelled and the ending is truncated. This
~ Kathy Reichs
Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, "that by our admitting the ideality of space and of time the whole sensible world would be turned into mere illusion.
~ Immanuel Kant
I think Otto will be rather relieved to be certain that you know. He doesn't enjoy deception. I choose the words carefully. He hasn't the least objection to deception. He just doesn't like the process of being found out. It's bad for his nerves
~ Iris Murdoch
Modern theoretical mathematicians frown at this and make haughty remarks such as But you are making the unwarranted assumption that the line is the same length when it is straight as when it was curved. I imagine the honest workman organizing the construction of the local temple, face with such an objection, would have solved matters by throwing the objector into the River Nile.
~ Isaac Asimov
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
~ Patrick Henry
Olla hyödyllinen ihminen - minusta siinä on aina ollut jotakin hyvin vastenmielistä.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?
~ Charles Darwin
W ere you aware,' began Lord Ruthven, 'that there are people in these isles whose sole objection to the marriage of our dear Queen – Victoria Regina, Empress of India, et cetera – to Vlad Dracula – known as Tepes, quondam Prince of Wallachia – is that the happy bridegroom happened once to be, in a fashion I shan't pretend to understand, a Roman Catholic?
~ Kim Newman