Argument Quotes
1783 quotes by 1284 authors
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Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him…
— Kristen Britain
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Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they…
— Julia Quinn
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[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case…
— Frederick Douglass
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I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and…
— Randy Pausch
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Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not…
— Meg Cabot
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
— Karl Barth
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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument…
— Barack Obama
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Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy,…
— Kevin Hearne
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As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of…
— David Levithan
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
— Sigmund Freud
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
— Ayn Rand
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Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
— Laurie R. King
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Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this…
— Rick Riordan
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..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having…
— David Levithan
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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and…
— David Nicholls
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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
— Edward St Aubyn
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Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show…
— Rick Riordan
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