Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a…

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as…

— James S.A. Corey

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with…

— Abraham Maslow

“Resist the urge to plan a “comeback” or a rebuttal. Your brain cannot listen well and prepare to speak at the same time. Use…

— Travis Bradberry

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

— Mark Ruffalo

We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day.…

— Bill Maher

“Now, the scene you just saw," I began, pointing to the stage. "Was about you and T.C.," he concluded, nodding like he already knew.…

— Steve Kluger

“You read card after card until you’re talking so fast that it’s hard to tell whether you’re giving your rebuttal or suffering from a…

— Katie A. Nelson

Any rebuttal to what I utter get box-cuttered. Count how many bad honeys I slut, its a high number. Name a nigga under the…

— Nas

I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them…

— Richard Dawkins

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point…

— Boris Johnson

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it…

— Dick Morris

President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to…

— Conan O'Brien

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

— George Sanders

Nothing works on the campaign trail like attacks on candidates for bad attendance. It alienates people on both sides of every issue and reflects…

— Dick Morris