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 ~
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 ~
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
~By Lord Halifax ~
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
~By Che Guevara ~
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
~By Dan Abrams ~
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.
~By Timothy McVeigh ~
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
~By William James ~
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 ~
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
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 ~
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
~By Karl Popper ~
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
~By Frederick The Great ~
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
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 ~
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 ~
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~By Colin Powell ~
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 ~
When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
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 ~
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?"
~By Ray Combs ~
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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 ~
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
~By William Henry Moody ~
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 ~
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
~By John McCarthy ~
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
~By Joyce Cary ~
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 ~
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
~By John Deacon ~
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
~By E. T. Bell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
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 ~
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
We must reinforce argument with results.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
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 ~
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
~By Daniel Webster ~
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
~By Leon Kass ~
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~By Robert South ~
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
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 ~
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
~By Al Franken ~
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
~By William H. Gray ~
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
~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. And the country's scared.
~By Barack Obama ~
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~By David Hume ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
~By Amy Tan ~
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~By William Gilbert ~
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 ~
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
~By Jonathan Krohn ~
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
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 ~
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 ~
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
~By Colin Firth ~
On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
~By Charles Vest ~
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
~By Dennis Prager ~
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 ~
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 ~
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
~By Steven Wright ~
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
~By Evan Parker ~
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