Argument Quotes

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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? — C.S. Lewis
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his… — Leo Tolstoy
Lady Placida smiled. â€œHistory seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be… — Jim Butcher
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm… — Milan Kundera
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. — Marilynne Robinson
Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are… — Christopher Hitchens
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.… — Chuck Klosterman
Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its… — Paul Brunton
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty… — Douglas Adams
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. — Robert A. Heinlein
When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn… — Marilyn Monroe
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they… — Philip Roth
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would… — Elizabeth Gilbert
maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we… — Naomi Shihab Nye
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They… — Ayn Rand
You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. "… — Rachel Caine
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain… — George Bernard Shaw
Arguments are too much like disputes. — Jane Austen
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. — Simone Elkeles
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like… — Colum McCann

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