Argument Quotes · Page 24

Silence doesn't mean that person quits, it simply means that one doesn't want to argue with people who just don't want to…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

— Stephen King

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

— Herman E. Daly

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

— John Milton

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both…

— Darryl F. Zanuck

“The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.”

— Steve Maraboli

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

— John McCarthy

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art…

— Anonymous

The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me…

— David Foster Wallace

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always…

— James S.A. Corey

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will…

— Stafford Cripps

You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really…

— Roger McGuinn

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of…

— Anonymous

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend,…

— Plutarch

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,…

— Plato

There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the…

— Dallin H. Oaks

I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason…

— William Lane Craig

“At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his…

— Mark Barrowcliffe

You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse…

— Howie Carr

“36. Argument from Incomplete Devastation: A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew. But one child survived with only third-degree burns. Therefore…

— Richard Dawkins

The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the…

— Deborah Tannen

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a…

— John Arbuthnot

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

— James Harvey Robinson

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For a healthy relationship don't argue like it's you versus your partner, but argue like it's you both versus the Issue.

— Anonymous

There Are Always Two Sides To An Argument And Two Perspectives To Consider.

— Pacifiersucker

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

— Auguste Rodin

If you're in an argument and the other person falls back, don't consider it a victory. Forcing someone down? It's not an…

— Amber Hope

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

— Anonymous

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

— Julia Quinn

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

— Elliott Smith

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

— Samuel Johnson

“Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks. "What're you...the designated driver of my life?" "Mad Dog House”

— Mark Rubinstein

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

— Albert Camus

“What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?”

— Julian Barnes

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument

— Anonymous

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

— Anabel Jensen