Argument Quotes · Page 89

When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by…

— Carl Sandburg

My main argument against staying in the E.U. has been the poor economic record of the E.U. as a whole and the…

— John Redwood

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against…

— Peter Singer

“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased…

— Andrew Sullivan

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to…

— John Stuart Mill

“Fat bitch," Kessa murmured as the door scraped closed behind Mrs. Stone. "She meant well, Francesca. And you see, everyone thinks you're…

— Steven Levenkron

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think…

— Ann Coulter

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

— Frank Herbert

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if…

— Isaac Asimov

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

— Matt Chandler

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

— Anonymous

In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that…

— Nicholson Baker

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than…

— Douglas Adams

Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's…

— Ronald D. Moore

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the…

— Nora Ephron

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important…

— Jermain Defoe

Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation…

— Chandra Wickramasinghe

Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell…

— Marvin Mudrick

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

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know…

— Abraham Lincoln

A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on…

— Andrew Dickson White