The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first…

If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all…

— Max Martin

“The first duty of love❤️ is to listen, the second duty is too help ✌️”

— Timothy Pina

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

— Shannon Hale

Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to…

— Arthur Helps

The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as…

— Anthony W. Ivins

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

— Jerry Saltz

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

— Barack Obama

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams