If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and… — Carmen Miranda Copy Share Image
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Pressed by the irresistible weight of these arguments many take refuge in ambiguous and evasive phrases, e.g., "Be sure God will do… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it.… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I think the way that I delivered my request for acting was undeniable, and I think that I was blessed enough to… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If in the script there is an argument about gun control, the most precious document you could produce at 'The West Wing'… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I would expect the fundamentalists to agree with me that democracy is incompatible with fundamentalist Islam. Moderate Muslims have to decide which… — Gerard Batten Copy Share Image
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Winning an argument is of no value. What you want is to win a convert. And people who lose arguments are more… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
We fight every night, now that's not kosher. I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer, And wake up to be… — Extra P Copy Share Image
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
