You read card after card until you’re talking so fast that…

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

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

— Anais Nin

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