Argument Quotes

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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair… — Tamora Pierce
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. — George Orwell
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. — George Washington
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may… — Charlotte Bronte
[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining. — N. T. Wright
Thereâ€™s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out… — Wendelin Van Draanen
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The… — Jim Thompson
Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would… — Lisa Kleypas
But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and… — Carl Sagan
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. — Iain Banks
But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as… — James A. Baldwin
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hourâ€™s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjadenâ€™s not saluting a… — Erich Maria Remarque
I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments. — Kevin Hearne
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. — Thomas Jefferson
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all. — Terry Pratchett
Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best. — Ray Bradbury

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