It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat… — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes [Eva Braun] would go back to his apartment to "make up." At the Berghof, these arguments didn't last as long, [Adolf… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“My argument for them is not altruistic in the least, but purely selfish. I should dislike to see them harassed by the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Our certitude and vehemence in political argument are way out of proportion to our knowledge...In politics, everybody is always very sure that… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a… — Louis van Gaal Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Never Win Someone with argument but defeat them with Ur Silence. Bcoz people who always want to argue with YOU, can't bear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I… — Katharine Butler Hathaway Copy Share Image
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less… — David Viscott Copy Share Image
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way.… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
“Does that count as an argument? Can we kiss and make up now?” "It was only half an argument.” “Fine. Then, you… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image