Argument Quotes · Page 38

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

— Bill Cosby

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

You know you win an argument, when the person responds with whatever.

— Anonymous

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are…

— Scott Westerfeld

“That’s not a logical argument. I know it isn’t. The thing isn’t Earth-logic anyway.”

— John W. Campbell Jr

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

— Alister E. McGrath

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

— Dennis Prager

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them,…

— William Chillingworth

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with…

— Edward Said

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe,…

— Frans de Waal

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other…

— John Deacon

I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good…

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments,…

— Theodore Austin-Sparks

“Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else…

— Tom King

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss…

— Kevin DeYoung

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and…

— C. S. Lewis

The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear…

— Charles Darwin

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If you go to the right conservative places you'll find there's a huge argument about this among conservatives, particularly the conservative elites…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all…

— Caitlin Moran

There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration…

— John Adams

“You know, you can always do a three some.” “A three some?” I frowned. “No.” He shrugged. “Just a thought.” “Yeah, a…

— Kira4Inu

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

— Jean Racine

“It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.”

— DC Talk the Voice of the Martyrs

“Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.”

— Dick Keyes

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

— Frank Herbert

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?

— Michelle Goldberg

I hate how after an argument I think of really clever stuff I should have said.

— Anonymous

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

— John Romero

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

— William Gurnall

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a…

— Voltaire

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

— Ellen G. White

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

— Edward Abbey