Arguing Quotes · Page 6

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

— Bob Woodward

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings…

— Rajneesh

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

— William H. Whyte

Its pointless arguing wit someone who can't realize what they done to cause an argument its like talking to a vegetable.

— Anonymous

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to…

— Glen Duncan

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

— Ashley Judd

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we…

— Ted Gup

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it,…

— Anonymous

For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say…

— Aesop Rock

I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various…

— Kevin Rudd

Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread…

— Kevin Ashton

I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make…

— David Bianculli

I was married for nine years before my husband and I separated and eventually divorced. Just as I'd watched my parents arguing…

— Regina King

“I should have known better. Arguing with Drew is like dealing with a terrorist. He has no boundaries; nothing’s off limits. There…

— Emma Chase

Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious…

— Lucy Powell

You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank…

— Markus Zusak

The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then…

— John Silber

There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters… Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending…

— Malcolm Forbes

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in…

— Aristotle

There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist…

— Noam Chomsky

Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –…

— James Scott Bell

I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense…

— Philip Kitcher

I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to…

— Terry Gilliam

A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his…

— Anonymous

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

— Virginia Woolf

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

— Laurence J. Peter

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

— Anonymous

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

— Chris Rock

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

— Karl Barth

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

— Beatrix Potter