Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
“you, yourself are the only one you answer to, so you better make the argument a good one!” — Tracy Lee Copy Share Image
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“One could drive a schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.” — David Houston Copy Share Image
“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the… — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood… — Jimmy Jean-Louis Copy Share Image
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
I contribute in many different ways to the team. I've played a hell of a lot of games in my career, and… — James Milner Copy Share Image
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically… — David Simon Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
“Look, Jordan, you’re not alone any more. It’s my job to protect you while I’m here and I can’t do that if… — Kyoko M Copy Share Image
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image