When you're winning an argument, the other person will bring up stuff from the past that you will lose at. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“it is often a good idea to state a thesis (an argument) which you are going to illustrate or explore in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands. — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat… — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Sometimes [Eva Braun] would go back to his apartment to "make up." At the Berghof, these arguments didn't last as long, [Adolf… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins 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 nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
“PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.” — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image