Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Let your life be your argument.

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

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Most arguments are useless.

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

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

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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

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.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

Nothing makes me crazier than the "you gave us Trump" argument based on Hillary Clinton's emails. I didn't set up the private server. I didn't advise her to be decidedly cryptic about the whole thing. I didn't tell the FBI to investigate.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.