I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.'… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree… — Brittney Ryan Copy Share Image
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end,… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“It’s true that what can be done will be done. It’s inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has… — David Ambrose Copy Share Image
“He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Attaching "produced at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT" to a ridiculous argument immediately makes it cogent to many. That's part of life, but let's… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
