My life is my argument.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
~By Don Rose ~
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
~By Peter Scott ~
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~By Milton Friedman ~
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
~By Richard Carlson ~
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~By Milton Friedman ~
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 ~
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 ~
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
~By John McCarthy ~
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
~By Rebecca West ~
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 ~
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
~By James Robinson ~
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
~By William Banting ~
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
~By Grace Abbott ~
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
~By Jane Austen ~
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
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 ~
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
~By Thom Yorke ~
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 ~
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
~By Jack Lynch ~
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
~By William Wycherley ~
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
~By John McCarthy ~
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
~By Elliott Smith ~
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
~By George Sand ~
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
~By John Barrymore ~
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
~By Juan Cole ~
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
~By George Carlin ~
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~By James Boswell ~
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 ~
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?
~By Robert Walpole ~
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 ~
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
~By Judith Martin ~
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
~By Peter Arnett ~
I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
~By Carmen Miranda ~
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
~By Robert Half ~
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
~By Cardinal De Retz ~
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
~By Mason Cooley ~
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
~By Ramakrishna ~
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
~By Robert Quillen ~
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 ~
There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.
~By David Zucker ~
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
~By William Penn ~
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
~By Elihu Root ~
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
~By Michael McCaul ~
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
~By Thomas Berger ~
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
~By Lord Halifax ~
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
~By Janet Frame ~
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.
~By Liam Neeson ~
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
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 ~
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~By Robert South ~
This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.
~By Dave Edmunds ~
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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 ~
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 ~
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
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 ~
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?"
~By Ray Combs ~
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.
~By John Deacon ~
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
~By Wendell Berry ~
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.
~By Brit Hume ~
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 ~
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
~By Ann Coulter ~
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
~By Lord Hailsham ~
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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.
~By Buddy Hackett ~
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
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 ~
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
~By Stockwell Day ~
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 ~
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 ~
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
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