Quote Position Paper

Quote Position Paper Word Count: 1500 Total Points: 25 pts Step 1: Choose a quotation Step 2: Do you accept or reject quotation. Step 3: Support your position by developing 3 REASONS. Step 4: Secure that each reason is specific enough and can be supported with external research. Step 5: Outline paper Step 6: Use examples (personal are OK) and research from credible/reliable sources – a minimum of 5 APA in-text citations required. Step 7: APA Reference page Step 8: No Title Page necessary Introduction Attention (Draw the reader in by using factual statements, statistics, story, or vivid language) Thesis: Reveal your quotation and position Preview: Tell the reader how you will support your position by elucidating on the three reasons. Body: Reason number one Support Support Transition Reason Number two Support Support Transition Reasons Number three Support Support Conclusion: Review support

Choose a quote that would be more interesting:

 

One

 

  1. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

—Michael Korda

 

  1. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

 

Two

 

  1. We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

—Peter De Vries

 

  1. If you don’t run your life, somebody else will.

—John Atkinson

 

Three

 

  1. It’s better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

—James Thurber

 

  1. Only the insecure strive for security.

—Wayne Dyer

 

Four

 

  1. Truth is beautiful, no doubt. But so are lies.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

  1. Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

—Anna Jameson

 

Five

 

  1. All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward.

—Ellen Glasgow

 

  1. Our greatest glory is not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.

—Confucius

 

Six

 

  1. Children have more need of models than critics.

—Joubert

 

  1. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

—Alphonse Karr

 

Seven

 

  1. The day of the hero is past.

—Ayn Rand

 

  1. Silence is better that speech.

—George Elliot

 

Eight

 

  1. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

—Abraham Lincoln

 

  1. Common sense is very uncommon.

—Horace Greeley

 

Nine

 

  1. A hungry man is not a free man.

—Adlai Stevenson

 

  1. Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

—Sir Boyle Roche

 

Ten

 

  1. Without discipline there is no life at all.

—Katherine Hepburn

 

  1. Anxious mothers make unsure kids.

—Bruno Bettleheim

 

Eleven

 

  1. Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

—Malcolm Cowley

 

  1. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

—Edward Phelps

 

Twelve

 

  1. Respect is what we owe, love is what we give.

—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

  1. Politics is war without violence.

—Stokely Carmichael

 

Thirteen

 

  1. Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

—Greek Proverb

 

  1. There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

—Douglas Macarthur

 

Fourteen

 

  1. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

—Emerson

 

  1. Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

—Edmund Burke

 

Fifteen

 

  1. Power backs up in the face of more power.

—Malcolm X

 

  1. The only cure for grief is action.

—G. H. Lewis

 

Sixteen

 

  1. If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

—Howard Gossage

 

  1. In his private heart no man much respects himself.

—Mark Twain

 

Seventeen

 

  1. Raising kids is part joy, part guerilla warfare.

—Ed Asner

 

  1. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, they hold him.

—Alexander Pope

 

Eighteen

 

  1. We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.

—Goethe

 

  1. There is no heavier burden than great potential.

—C. M. Schultz

 

Nineteen

 

  1. A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.

—Chesterfield

 

  1. It is because of men that women dislike one another.

—La Bruyere

 

Twenty

 

  1. No man does anything from a single motive.

—Lichtenberg

 

  1. A man who could not seduce men cannot save them either.

—Kierkegaard

 

Twenty-One

 

  1. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

—Thoreau

 

  1. The flower in the vase still smiles, but no longer laughs.

—Chazel

 

Twenty-Two

 

  1. Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

—Bertrand Russell

 

  1. The price of hating other humans is loving oneself less.

— Eldridge Cleaver

 

Twenty-Three

 

  1. A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.

—Lichtenberg

 

  1. We have to change truth a little in order to remember it.

—Santayana

 

Twenty-Four

 

  1. We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

—H. L. Mencken

 

  1. If the apocalypse comes, beep me.

—Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

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