Argument Quotes · Page 30

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

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 always felt like I could participate at the adult table, but I also knew that if you're going to make an…

— Meena Harris

Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious,…

— Dalai Lama

I find that when I'm in an argument and I'm angry, I can't even form a sentence well. You say something and…

— Finneas

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is,…

— Will Rogers

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

— Ron Chernow

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what…

— Barry Eisler

Be reasonable with your argument, any argument that ended with good resolution plus a point that establishes a good reason for the…

— Kemmy Nola

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”

— Deborah Cameron

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…

— John Ralston Saul

Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's…

— Rick Santorum

Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people…

— Murray Horwitz

“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a…

— Walter Cronkite

“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring…

— Alan Sokal

Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine…

— Edward Robert Harrison

Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want…

— George W. Bush

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

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

— Julia Quinn

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

— Anonymous

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

— John McCarthy

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

— Steve Maraboli

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

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

— Roland Allen

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too…

— Dana Gould

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