Arguing Quotes

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.

I think the media argues all the time with itself.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

So," Annabeth said, "are you going to argue about me coming along?" "Nah. You'd just beat me up." Percy said. She managed a laugh, which was good to hear

If Bruce Jenner says he's woman then I'm not gonna argue with him. I know what obviously and biologically he is.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.

Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won’t be so dense. (Acheron)

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

We're like brothers [with Tommy Lee] - we argue, we don't talk to each other for a while, and then we forget why we were even arguing in the first place.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

Excuse me, " she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

Don't even think of arguing with me. I'm an old woman and if you fight me about it, it could give me a heart attack.