For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may… — John Milton Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“I’m going to my room,” Jessie Kay called. “Y’all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in… — John F. Akers Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even… — Ben H. Winters 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're… — Rich Burlew Copy Share Image
Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make… — Tom Shields Copy Share Image