Arguing Quotes · Page 64

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at…

— Voltaire

No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of…

— Richard Harris

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

— Nancy Gibbs

Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or…

— Jack Tatum

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

— A. A. Milne

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

— Claudia Rankine

We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative.…

— Francis George

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some…

— Frank Rich

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is…

— Minna Antrim

Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course…

— Kenneth I. Chenault

I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements…

— Philip Kitcher

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that…

— Dan Barker

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could…

— Gordon S. Wood

We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue…

— Jason Silva

John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing…

— Robert H. Frank

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

— Jake Barton

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,…

— Charles Heiser

I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is…

— Robert Bothwell

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught…

— Isabel Allende

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

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

— Pericles

“The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in…

— Terry Pratchett

I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal…

— Branch Rickey