Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

You can’t say ‘Oh my stars.’ ‘Oh my stars’ is not a thing, and it makes no sense. The whole point of that saying is that you’re calling out to someone for help, and stars are not ‘someone,’ and certainly not capable of helping.” The words were out and gone before I realized what was happening. Grace just stared back at me, and I wanted so badly to shake the girl and make her realize that life couldn’t be all overalls and pink rain boots and guardian stars. I wanted to make her realize that sometimes you had to work.

You can't win an argument with an argument.

You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic.

You don’t know anything about me.” “No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are, cabbage fairy,” he said, reaching for his hood and gloves and tucking them into the waistband of his trousers. “Your desires are no different from my own, I simply have the courage to face them.

You don’t win a debate by suppressing discussion; you win it with a better argument.

You have a boyfriend and you still don't want to watch a love story?" Cece's voice had an edge of snide to it. Stay calm, Lexie. I looked at her and said with a straight face. "I will not eat them in a house, I will not eat them with a mouse, I will not eat them in a box, I will not eat them with a fox. I will not eat them here or there I will not eat them anywhere." [...] "Ah, ah, ah man, Red just quoted Dr. Seuss!" [...] "In an argument" [...] "And totally won.

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than just the physical side, my knuckles bruising his throat and his back arching for all his so-called defiance. 'I don't care what I am, so long as you're afraid of me.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very droll,' Antoinette said, drawing close to the bars of the cage. 'Because I was going to say precisely the same thing about your little revolution.' 'It's hardly a revolution if the man in charge condones it,' Troius said. 'It's amusing that you assume it is that man who controls Thremedon,' Antoinette snarled.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

A good life is a main argument.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.