Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.