Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep… — Jodie Whittaker Copy Share Image
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… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Acknowledge the strengths of your opponent’s argument. If you are trying to persuade someone, why on earth would you want to lend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“You know, you can always do a three some.” “A three some?” I frowned. “No.” He shrugged. “Just a thought.” “Yeah, a… — Kira4Inu Copy Share Image
I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I’ve told you before not to call me prickly. That’s a word that men use about women who don’t cave to them,… — Noelle Adams Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get… — Billy Dee Williams Copy Share Image
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force,… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't get that - people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important… — Jermain Defoe Copy Share Image
My argument is that there is already an automated machine to make pads. What I did - I reverse-engineered it to 'simple.'… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I was stuck in traffic and I looked in the mirror and in the car behind me there was a couple having… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it,… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“You have to predict and examine and understand every argument the other side is going to throw at you. It's not about… — Cherrie Lynn Copy Share Image
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
