Argument Quotes

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

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.

..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

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.

The idea comes before the logical argument.