Discussion Quotes

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

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.

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion.

There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox).

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

[Possible Attorney General] that's a discussion I'd like to have with [Donald Trump].

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.