Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
~By Robert Quillen ~
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
We must reinforce argument with results.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
~By William James ~
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.
~By Lloyd Norton Cutler ~
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
~By Bob Geldof ~
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
~By David McCullough ~
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
~By Katharine Butler Hathaway ~
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
~By Alain de Botton ~
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
~By Johann Most ~
When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it.
~By Charles R. Anderson ~
I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.
~By Joel Coen ~
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~By James Boswell ~
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
~By Barry Levinson ~
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
~By Roger Bacon ~
After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
~By Ric Keller ~
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
~By Norodom Sihanouk ~
Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
~By John Deacon ~
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
~By Adam Michnik ~
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
~By Jane Austen ~
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
~By Leon Kass ~
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
~By Robert Benchley ~
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
~By Janet Frame ~
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
~By Joyce Cary ~
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
~By Barack Obama ~
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
~By John Webster ~
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
~By Dick Wolf ~
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.
~By Michael Servetus ~
At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.
~By William Henry Moody ~
It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
~By Dave Edmunds ~
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
~By Edward de Bono ~
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
~By Grace Slick ~
For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
~By Roger Bacon ~
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Once again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on 'consensus science' and not scientific fact.
~By Doug L. Hoffman ~
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
~By Chester Brown ~
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
~By Roger Bacon ~
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
~By Che Guevara ~
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
~By Jim Fowler ~
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
~By William Ruckelshaus ~
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
~By John Sayles ~
So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
~By Freddy Fender ~
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
~By Jack Benny ~
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy"'or 'What do you think of this?'
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
~By Peter Coyote ~
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
~By Milan Kundera ~
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
~By Bruno Schulz ~
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
~By John Wilkins ~
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
~By Ann Coulter ~
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
~By Omar Khayyam ~
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.
~By Edward Sapir ~
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.
~By Stanley Fish ~
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated.
~By Keith Carradine ~
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
~By James L. Buckley ~
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
~By David Baltimore ~
Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
~By Max von Laue ~
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
~By Karl Popper ~
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
~By Anthony Holden ~
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