Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I… — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. — Ralph Hartley Copy Share Image
Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments. — Maurice Bowra Copy Share Image
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.” — T.D. Jakes Copy Share Image
In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In macroeconomic theory, there is this argument that what the Fed does has no effect on unemployment, no effect on investment, no… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you’ll… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. — Hiroyuki Nishimura Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you plan an argument in your head and it doesn't happen the way you hoped it would!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use? — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote. — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something… — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image