“They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the… — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate.” “And the other half?” He had her now. “You have… — Anne Osterlund Copy Share Image
And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Some of my understanding of what philosophy and ethics is has changed very slowly. One thing that has changed is this for… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
My main argument against staying in the E.U. has been the poor economic record of the E.U. as a whole and the… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads… — Romeo Dallaire Copy Share Image
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called… — Bill Huizenga Copy Share Image
“But that kind of thinking . . . you could turn it into an argument for killing anyone at any time. You… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation… — David Christian Copy Share Image
A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
