I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“What are they fighting about?” Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. “They’re arguing scripture.” “Your brother is… — Dawn Jayne Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
“To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic. If you’re not willing to take some actions that… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When you argue and fight in a relationship, it is simply a test to see if the partnership is strong enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour.… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It's one thing if you're a part of teams that won five championships. But it's an extremely different argument if you're a… — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
“They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I don't think it is impossible to make the case to sensible Americans that far greater restrictions on their so-called gun rights… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004] — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Sometimes an argument saves a relationship, whereas silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart so that you won't have regrets. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more… — Jerry Taylor Copy Share Image
The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image