Arguing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
-- Aaron Hill -
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
-- Agatha Christie -
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
-- Albert Einstein -
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.
-- Ally Carter -
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
-- Andre Malraux -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
-- Andre Maurois -
I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.
-- Andy Murray -
The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
-- Anita Ekberg -
I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
-- Arsene Wenger -
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
-- Beatrix Potter -
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
-- Bob Woodward -
It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.
-- Bobby Jindal -
When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
-- Booth Tarkington -
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
-- Brian Molko -
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
-- Bronwyn Bishop -
If you argue against reality you will suffer.
-- Byron Katie -
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
-- C. S. Lewis -
Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.
-- Carole Nelson Douglas -
A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
-- Carrie Vaughn -
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
-- Cato the Elder -
We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.
-- Charles Siebert -
I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.
-- Charlie Munger -
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
-- Chris Chocola -
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
-- Christopher Buckley -
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.
-- Cindy Wright -
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology
-- Clifford Geertz -
It's funny-my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you're doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.
-- Connie Britton -
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
-- Dalton McGuinty -
If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.
-- Damon Dash -
Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave
-- Dan Buettner -
This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.
-- David Edward Kirk -
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
-- David Harsanyi -
I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.
-- David Hoffman -
If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won’t fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith,
-- DeVon Franklin -
If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.
-- DeVon Franklin -
My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
-- Diana Ross -
I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.
-- Donald Barthelme -
You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
-- Edwin Howard Armstrong -
Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ...
-- Elspeth Huxley -
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
-- Emily Dickinson -
On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.
-- Eugene Mirman -
Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
-- Ezra Koenig -
Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union
-- Francois Mitterrand -
...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
-- Franny Billingsley -
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.
-- Frederic Raphael -
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
-- Galileo Galilei -
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.
-- Gary Sloan -
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
-- Gene Tierney -
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
-- George Kennedy -
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
-- Gerald Durrell -
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
-- Glen Duncan -
Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.
-- Grover Norquist -
There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
-- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.
-- Harold Arlen -
The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
-- Harold Wilson -
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
-- Helen Hunt -
We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.
-- Henning Mankell -
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
-- Hugh Allen -
You do this, you do that You argue left, you argue right You come down, you go up This person says no, you say yes Back and forth You are happy You are really happy
-- Ikkyu -
What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
-- Irving Layton -
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
-- J. I. Packer -
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
-- J. Richard Clarke -
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
-- Jack Kingston -
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
-- Jack Straw -
If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.
-- Jack Straw -
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
-- James Broughton -
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
-- James Joyce -
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
-- James Whistler -
I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair
-- Jayne Ann Krentz -
You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.
-- Jennifer Donnelly -
I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.
-- Jennifer Garner -
Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.
-- Jennifer Stone -
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?
-- Jim Bouton -
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
-- Jimmy Wales -
I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.
-- Joe Posnanski -
So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain....
-- John Ashbery -
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.
-- John Carroll
