Famous quotes containing the words life and/or debate:
“All my life Ive been running, from welfare officers, thugs, my father. See, there they are [the killers]. There on the bridge. Im a dead man. Nosseros told me that. He told me. He said, You got it all, but youre a dead man, Harry Fabian.”
—Jo Eisinger, and Jules Dassin. Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark)
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of ones own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other peoples, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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