Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

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

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when you can do the most damage. And they're bad, because you always hit them in the spot where you know it hurts.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

It's perfectly OK that there are certain people who do not accept Islam at all. Therefore, to announce that I am a Muslim can rub some people the wrong way. But my aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. They violate these rights and then seek refuge behind the argument that Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy. But this is basically to save face. In fact, I'm promoting democracy. And I'm saying that Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.

It's the same argument people say about the blogs. The blogs are responsible. No, they're not. The blogs are like anything else. You judge each one based on its own veracity and intelligence and all of that.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

I want the tigard. (Varyk) And I want you to leave. Guess who’s going to win this argument? And in case you’re even denser than you appear, it’s not you. (Dev)

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphicsI’ve gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill you and how it doesn’t make any sense.  It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Let your life be your argument.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Most arguments are useless.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.