When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Expand the authority, validity and integrity of your argument or view. Consider making a true defense for your belief from a foundation… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In… — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
“The tendency to bring up Nazi Germany in any argument inspired Godwin’s Law and the related reductio ad Hiterlum. The deeply entrenched… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away. "Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue… — Matthew d'Ancona Copy Share Image
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been… — Adam LaVorgna Copy Share Image
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
