Argument Quotes · Page 40

“To sway opinion should never be the motive of argument. I argue only for pleasure.”

— A.E. Marling

“You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.”

— John Eldredge

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

— Richard Dawkins

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

— James Carville

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

— Wilfred Funk

In an argument, a woman always has the last word. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new…

— Anonymous

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

— Winston Churchill

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though…

— Maureen Howard

President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a…

— Hillary Clinton

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go…

— Valentina Tereshkova

The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that,…

— Henry Hazlitt

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours…

— Henry Rollins

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason…

— Norman Geras

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The…

— Paul Brunton

“What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that…

— Melina Marchetta

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed…

— Frances Wright

Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.…

— Anonymous

The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those…

— Paul Bettany

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works,…

— Micah Perks

One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling…

— Paul McCartney

What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized…

— Christian Scott

“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

Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists…

— George Will

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

— Karl Popper

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

— Tom Stoppard

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

— Jane Austen

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

— Jared Harris

Calling out someone's sexuality to ridicule them is not funny nor a way to win an argument.

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

— E. W. Howe

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

— Graham Greene

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

— Larry Wall

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.

— Serena Williams

“You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...”

— Gary Nilsen

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an…

— Steven Wright

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

— Katharine Hepburn

“It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

— Patrick Henry

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

— J. C. Ryle