Argument Quotes · Page 38

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

— Sheila Heti

If I say okay during an argument, that means shut the hell up not keep explaining your point

— Blossom

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

— Colin Powell

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

— Allen Tate

Don't start an argument with a girl. They all have 686437 GB memory and will bring up something you did at 14:32 PM on 24/06/2007

— MOi

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

— George Eliot

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

— Marilyn vos Savant

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

— John Stuart Mill

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there…

— John Quiggin

Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and…

— Owen Jones

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it…

— Roger Bacon

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away. "Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when…

— Mark Twain

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

— Max Lucado

“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of…

— William Lane Craig

The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't…

— Francis Darwin

Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The…

— Ryan Bingham

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves…

— Henri Nouwen

“In such circumstances there can be no argument; the necessary minimum of agreement cannot be reached ... It is as though in…

— George Orwell

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that…

— John Green

Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic…

— Jaak Panksepp

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

— Eustace Budgell

They were winning the argument at the time, but they were big losers in the long run.

— Anonymous

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

— Ray Dalio

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

— Harvey Pekar

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

— Chauncey Depew

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

— Sharon Begley

A legal decision depends not on the teacher's age, but on the force of his argument

— The Talmud

Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her…

— Lionel Shriver

“her hips were having an argument with the upper half of her body as to who was to get more eye contact”

— J.S. Mason

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

— Susan Faludi

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

— Edward R. Murrow

There is definitely an argument that Sergio Aguero is the Premier League's best ever striker.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

— L. J. Smith

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

— Salman Rushdie

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

— Richard Overy