Arguments Quotes (790 Quotes)

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration

His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity.

The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

If you look at their argument, there is really one tower they are basing it on. These design elements are contained in other buildings on the campus - and to say that their design contained those elements and our design contained these elements ... does not mean that we copied theirs. There's only so much you can do with a parking garage.

The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they dont even invite me.

It's a load of rubbish. You can see manufacturers using this as an argument for making more paper and recycling less.

When the argument came as to whether or not we belonged, quite frankly I loved it. I think everybody loves the David and Goliath story. But most of the time, no one cheers for Goliath. No matter who we faced, it was going to be something that we were expected to lose. It was something that it motivated our guys.

Judge Roberts is widely respected across the political spectrum for his qualifications for the job, his experience, his unquestioned character and integrity and his fairness. He's a constructionist -- he believes the Constitution means what it says. He's demonstrated that he's willing to sit down and listen to both sides of an argument and base his decision -- not on ideology -- but on what the law says.

If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No. 2.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

I read a study a while ago that made the argument, and it is a plausible argument, that there has been more persecution of Christians in the 20th century than in any of the preceding 19 centuries,

Whatever the competitive arguments may be for a more timely introduction of extending the trading day, the overriding interest should be the protection of the public user of the marketplace,

I hope people are thinking carefully about their arguments.

There is merit in that argument. I see no logic, though, in committing coaching suicide as per the Welsh.

Reber Johnson a violinist also got off another one, after I'd played over the Second Violin Sonata for himthat harmless piece. 'After stuff like that'he said'if you consider that music, and like it, how can you like Brahms or any good music' That is a very common attitude among almost all the well known lilies. They take it i.e., that attitude for granteda kind of self-evident axiom, a settled-for-life matter, ipso facto, admitting of no argument. The classical is good for all time, the modern is bad for all timeso if you like one, you can't like the other. Describing the reaction of a typical professional musician to his, and other twentieth-century, compositions. 'Lilies' was one of Ives' names for most of the concert goers of his era, who expected all music to be conventional and pretty.

I think that civil liberties types will make an argument that the lure of chat lines may be too much. And maybe that will not be a fair use of the limited rights granted police authorities to use entrapments.

My life is my argument.

We've been doing inspections all along. You can always make the argument that work could have been done faster.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

He has a plausible defense he could say he's fighting for his constituency, and that's true in large part. The thing is, the contributions undercut his argument. The money really complicates it, or even compromises the integrity behind the action.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

There is an argument going on about whether smaller merchants will continue to proliferate and grow disproportionately or whether you will see big-name, off-line retailers like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Home Depot compete more effectively online and take over this medium,

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Our argument is you don't get two bites of the apple, ... It was already appealed, and the prosecution was upheld. And, to me, that's the end of the story.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

He said she became hysterical and they got into a big fight. He said he couldn't take her doing this anymore. I assume this was an ongoing argument.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean tried to turn around the World War II argument. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led America to victory in World War II because they laid out a clear plan for success to the American people, America's allies and America's troops, ... President Bush has failed to put together a plan, so despite the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, we are not making the progress that we should be in Iraq.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

Arthur versus Harrison is a natural. There is not a lot of love lost Arthur was originally trained by Harrison's father Peter before the pair fell out and you could make out an argument for either man to be the better boxer or fighter. It is a fight I would love to make.

Our argument is that people want to go to the movie theaters because they want to go to the movie theater. It's not about seeing it just because it's not at home. I have food at home, too, but I still go to restaurants.

Chen is using the tactic of violating the 'five noes' with the argument that the situation has changed.

In Shooting Dad, ... There were years and years when he hid out by himself in the garage making rifle barrels and I holed up in my room reading Allen Ginsberg poems, and we were incapable of having a conversation that didn't end in an argument.

The other area is certainly an area for debate. We'll just have to see it plays out. I understand both sides of the argument.

Tech lobbyists are already sharpening their arguments. I'm sure some states are eagerly watching what happens in Europe and may try to use the implementation as an excuse to say, Why can't we do the same thing in U.S. ... But we think the European VAT tax should be a substantial concern to anyone interested in free trade and open markets.

Tim fans need not despair Pop music's greatest producer will be reunited with his favorite muse. I'm quite sure that Tim and I are going to be together, ... It's not like we had an argument and aren't talking. Tim's my brother and always will be.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

UNAIDS presents a more clinical argument. We deal with the facts, ... And if you exclude any group from the process in response to AIDS, you can never build an effective response. That's the fact.