It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
Sometimes an argument saves a relationship, whereas silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart so that you won't have regrets. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world… Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more… — Jerry Taylor Copy Share Image
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“What are they fighting about?” Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. “They’re arguing scripture.” “Your brother is… — Dawn Jayne Copy Share Image
Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument. — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image