Argument Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Long Long term Short term Term Used Versus
They were winning the argument at the time, but they were big losers in the long run. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties,… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite. — Eben Pagan Copy Share Image
When you're winning an argument, the other person will bring up stuff from the past that you will lose at. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners. — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton 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… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
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
