Best 451 quotes in «arguing quotes» category

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.

If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

If we fail to achieve our goals in Iraq - which the administration defines as a 'unified, stable, democratic and secure nation' - it won't be the fault of the ink-stained wretches or even their blow-dried TV counterparts. To argue otherwise deflects blame from those who deserve it, in the upper echelons of the administration and the armed forces. Perhaps that's the point.

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

If you want to take off your journalist outfit and declare yourself a pundit and go argue against Donald Trump, go for it. But you can't wear both hats.

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room.

I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I ever met anyone new at an intersection? No, but I like the idea of it. I like cities because if you're stopping on the corner to wait for a light to change, there's the possibility that you and somebody else can talk. And if you and that somebody else start to talk, then you can start to argue, and if you start to argue, you might start a revolution.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue that pay doesn't have something to do with the lack of prestige.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won’t be so dense. (Acheron)

'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.