Arguing Quotes

How can you argue with a woman who won't?

— Robert A. Heinlein

To argue with reality is to argue with God

— Byron Katie

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

— Jane Austen

I never argue with people about movies.

— Andrew Sarris

“Stop worrying and start arguing.”

— Anonymous

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

— Henning Mankell

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

— James Whistler

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

— Paula Abdul

I'm not arguing! I'm simply explaining why I'm right.

— Hussein Nishah

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

— Richard Powers

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

— Milton Friedman

Arguing is not worth the wasted effort. Stay positive. Good thing will come.

— Anonymous

The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.

— Judith Miller

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

— Cyril Connolly

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

— H. L. Mencken

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

— Virginia Woolf

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it…

— Wilfred Trotter

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

— Joel Osteen

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

— Thomas Paine

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

— Chuck Todd

The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most…

— David Harvey

“(Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)”

— Ada Calhoun

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

— Kofi Annan

“Why do you have to correct everything I say?” Julie glanced at his FTW! shirt. “Out of the two of us, I…

— Jessica Park

There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are…

— Iain Banks

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million…

— Charlie Kaufman

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that…

— Thomas Merton

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because…

— Garrison Keillor

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time,…

— Richard M. Nixon

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say…

— H. L. Mencken

I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve…

— David Wong

When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the…

— Martin Gardner

Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers…

— Salman Rushdie

I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My…

— Peter Mayle

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood,…

— Maggie Nelson

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an…

— Philip Auslander

Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is,…

— Douglas Adams