Argument Quote by Laurie R. King Download Open image “Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.” — Laurie R. King ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Insult Mind Psychology Small minds
Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing,… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
Insults are the last resort of the weak-minded when they feel powerless. — Russ Johnson Copy Share Image
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Insults are like angry bulls... they can only do damage if you let them in. You can't control what people say, but you can… — MO'zee Copy Share Image
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“-in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where people had windows reminding them of ancestors whose bones had long since gone to dust? In England, the country that had perfected the art of the devastating remark? In England, where the servants' entrance waited, where all ears… — Laurie R. King Copy Share
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her life to the contemplation of a God in whom she only marginally believes." I felt stunned, as if she had struck… — Laurie R. King Copy Share
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree… — John Rawls Copy Share
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
