Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not.

I haven't seen - I haven't heard the arguments that would make that case. And I haven't seen a proposal yet that satisfies the objections. The problem is, you create a key like this, and it can't - it's hard to say that it's going to be hidden. And then it becomes used both by our government in multiple cases, but also it could get out as far as hackers are concerned or other countries.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all the stuff that's repeated, from spatial products to whole cities, which looks so daunting to architects, might be especially empowering. At this moment, it might be harder to make a meaningful object form alone, but easier to make an active form that can piggyback on those multipliers to recondition spaces in a politically significant way.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

I really think that everything that's known about Hillary has been dissected, rehashed. For some people that is an argument that she would be the better candidate against McCain.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.