I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye… — Plato Copy Share Image
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Do you understand what it means when you imply you don't trust us to help you? To respect your wishes if you… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
You do not need intellectuality for deep faith. You do not need it for behaving humanely towards people whether fellow Muslims or… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
We must face up to the long-term failures of Britain's approach to immigration and make the argument for an effective, compassionate and… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
There are clear cases in which understanding literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts… — John Searle Copy Share Image
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
“During one walk, Jack engaged in the first metaphysical argument that he can remember. It concerned the nature of the future: Is… — George Sayer Copy Share Image
“You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.'' ''Compatibility is for my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I like the concept of escalating warfare, but you need someone to fight back in order for things to escalate. If there's… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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