Arguing Quotes:

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

- Aaron Hill

source: Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21

topic: Doubt, Mind, Arguing

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

- Aaron Sorkin

topic: Drunk, Fool, Arguing

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Men, Arguing, Spite, Obstinate, Hercule Poirot

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Arguing, Theory, Waiter

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Europe, Invasion, Arguing, Western Europe

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

topic: Teacher, Abby, Arguing, Gunmen

Many can argue - not many converse.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Communication, Arguing

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Arguing

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Children, Enemy, Arguing

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

- Andre Maurois

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Opinion, Arguing, Argument

I never argue with people about movies.

- Andrew Sarris

source: "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

topic: People, Arguing

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

- Andy Murray

topic: Believe, Arguing

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

- Anita Ekberg

topic: Important, Arguing, Good Marriage

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

topic: Balls, Kicking, Arguing, Kicking It

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

topic: People, Religion, Arguing

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

- Beatrix Potter

topic: Perfection, Arguing

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Giving, Bows, Arguing

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Thinking, Arguing, Reviews

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

topic: Fighting, Obamacare, Arguing

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

source: "GOP Struggles for Salvation". Austin American-Statesman, November 23, 2008.

topic: Party, Way, Arguing, Republican Party

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

- Booth Tarkington

source: Booth Tarkington (1932). “The Works of Booth Tarkington”

topic: People, Opinion, Arguing

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Arguing, Century, Composer

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

topic: Wisdom, Arguing, Cases

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

- Byron Katie

topic: Reality, Suffering, Arguing

Insanity is arguing with reality.

- Byron Katie

topic: Reality, Insanity, Arguing

To argue with reality is to argue with God

- Byron Katie

topic: Reality, Arguing

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

topic: Arguing, Patient, Argument, Screwtape Letters

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

- Carole Nelson Douglas

source: Carole Nelson Douglas (2007). “Cat in a Red Hot Rage: A Midnight Louie Mystery”, p.148, Macmillan

topic: Too Much, Arguing, Librarian

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

source: Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty's House of Horrors”, p.103, Hachette UK

topic: Reality, Perception, Arguing

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

- Cato the Elder

topic: Ears, Matter, Arguing

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

- Charles Siebert

topic: Civilization, Arguing, Argument

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

topic: Majority, Faces, Arguing, Accounting

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Arguing, Ownership, Force

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

- Christopher Buckley

source: Jason Reitman, Christopher Buckley (2007). “Thank You For Smoking: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

topic: Arguing, Argument

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Time, Faithful, Arguing

Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.

- Cindy Wright

topic: Children, Preparation, Arguing

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

topic: Facts, Arguing, Fit, Anthropology

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

topic: Kids, Arguing, Married

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

- Dalton McGuinty

topic: Arguing, Term, Inclination

If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

- Damon Dash

topic: Hurt, Get Money, Arguing, Getting Hurt, Disrespected

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

- Dan Buettner

topic: Drunk, Suffering, Arguing, Getting Drunk

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

- David Edward Kirk

topic: Numbers, Arguing, Analysts

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

- David Harsanyi

topic: Jobs, Notable, Arguing

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

- David Hoffman

source: "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

topic: Arguing, Verify, Slogans

If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.

- DeVon Franklin

topic: Doors, Arguing, Fit

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

topic: Father, Want, Arguing

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

topic: Believe, Action, Arguing

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Suffering, Arguing, Wells, Yoga Practice, New Earth

Why am I arguing with a computer?

- Edge

topic: Wwe, Arguing, Computer

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

- Edwin Howard Armstrong

source: "Edwin Armstrong: Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis, www.columbia.edu. 2002.

topic: Reality, Men, Arguing

Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.

- Elizabeth Chandler

topic: Voice, Worry, Arguing

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

- Elizabeth Janeway

topic: Arguing, Problem, Dilemma, Prescriptions

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ...

- Elspeth Huxley

source: Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.54, Random House

topic: Arguing, Interest, Interest In Life, Always Arguing

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Life, Arguing, Emily

only a fool would argue with a fool!

- Eric Jerome Dickey

topic: Fool, Arguing

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

topic: Arrogant, Sides, Arguing, Samuel L Jackson

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

- Ezra Koenig

topic: Trying, Arguing, Hysterical

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

- Francois Mitterrand

topic: War, Unions, Arguing

...if you don't argue, you can't give in...

- Franny Billingsley

topic: Giving, Arguing

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

topic: Communication, Ethics, Arguing, Mass Communication, Showbiz

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

topic: People, Matter, Arguing, Passing Judgment

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

- Gary Sloan

topic: Religion, Way, Arguing, Make It Happen, Improbable

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

topic: Parent, Littles, Arguing

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

topic: Luck, Arguing, Brilliant, Good Fortune, Fortune And Luck

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

- Gerald Durrell

topic: Knitting, Wish, Arguing

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

topic: Past, Self, Arguing

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

topic: Cutting, Growth, Arguing, Capital Gains, Capital Gains Tax

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

topic: Arguing, Logical, Hyperinflation

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

topic: Leader, Too Much, Arguing

Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

- Harold Arlen

topic: Music, Air, Arguing

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

topic: Party, Arguing, Trouble, Labour Party

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

- Helen Hunt

topic: People, Dinner, Arguing, One Sentence

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Arguing

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

- Howard G. Hendricks

topic: Epic, Belief, Arguing

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

- Hugh Allen

topic: Two, Silence, Arguing

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

topic: Happiness, Arguing, Really Happy

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

topic: Facts, Lines, Arguing

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

- Irving Layton

source: Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

topic: Clever, Arguing, Argument

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

- J. I. Packer

topic: Limits, Scripture, Arguing, Outer Limits

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

- J. Richard Clarke

topic: Arguing, Explanation

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

topic: Definitions, Arguing, Logical

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

- Jack Straw

source: "Jack Straw: 'To survive in politics, you've got to have a sixth sense'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

topic: Children, Arguing, My Family

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

source: "UK threat to punish Mugabe" by Andrew Meldrum and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2002.

topic: Government, Zimbabwe, Arguing

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

- James Broughton

topic: Art, Passion, Arguing

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

topic: Writing, Way, Arguing, Busy Life

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

- James Whistler

source: James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.57, Courier Corporation

topic: Arguing

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair

- Jayne Ann Krentz

topic: Hair, Arguing, Bigs, Big Hair

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

- Jennifer Donnelly

topic: Matter, Lasts, Arguing

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

- Jennifer Garner

topic: Arguing, Conflict, Stills

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

- Jennifer Stone

topic: Movie, Favors, Arguing

You can't argue with stupidity.

- Jermaine Jackson

topic: Ignorance, Stupidity, Arguing

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

topic: Tape, Investing, Arguing

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

- Jim Bouton

topic: Fighting, Want, Arguing

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

- Jimmy Wales

topic: Real, Pressure, Arguing, Social Pressure

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

topic: Baseball, People, Arguing

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

- Johann Lamont

topic: Men, Arguing, Born

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

topic: Music, Musician, Arguing, Declamation

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

source: John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

topic: Ideas, Arguing, Language

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

- John Henry Newman

topic: Believe, Men, Arguing

Why argue about decisions you're not powerful enough to make yourself?

- John Houseman

topic: Powerful, Decision, Arguing

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

- John Marston

topic: Two, Arguing, Theory

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

- John Ortberg

topic: Jesus, Arguing, Christianity, Evangelical, Marvelous

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing

- John Searle

source: "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

topic: Car, Machines, Arguing

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

- Jon Campbell

topic: Purpose, Arguing, Argument

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

- Joseph Murphy

source: Joseph Murphy (2015). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.38, Om Books International

topic: Mind, Doe, Arguing, Subconscious Mind, Power Subconscious Mind

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

- Jude Morgan

topic: People, Arguing, Pleasure

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

- Judith Curry

source: "The 50-50 argument". judithcurry.com. August 24, 2014.

topic: Climate, Purpose, Arguing, Attribution, Detection

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

- Julian Casablancas

topic: New York, People, Arguing, Always Arguing

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

- Julian Clary

topic: Thinking, Arguing, Tarts

You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?

- Julie Garwood

topic: Arguing, Realizing, Allowance

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

- Karl Barth

source: "A weapon for liberation, and oppression" by Tim Skellett, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

topic: Belief, Arguing, Unbelief

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

- Kevin J. Anderson

topic: Rooms, Arguing, Dogma, Rational Thought

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

- Lars von Trier

topic: Children, Helping, Arguing

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Women, Mind, Arguing

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Character, Arguing

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Arguing

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

- Leigh Bardugo

source: Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan

topic: Laughter, Arguing, Insult

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

- Lexa Doig

topic: Careers, Ideas, Arguing

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

- Lionel Shriver

topic: Doe, Arguing, Kind

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

- Liz Phair

source: "Trace the arc of Liz Phair's career via her Wall Street Journal piece on Lana Del Rey" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. February 6, 2012.

topic: Men, Feelings, Arguing, Uncomfortable Feeling

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

- Lotte Lehmann

topic: Afterlife, Arguing, Protest

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Arguing

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: Believe, Arguing

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

- Marcello Mastroianni

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Arguing, Forgotten

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

- Maria Edgeworth

source: Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

topic: Class, Arguing, Reason

But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: May, Arguing

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

- Mary Douglas

topic: Next, Steps, Arguing

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

- Mary Russell Mitford

source: Mary Russell Mitford (1828). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.160

topic: Passion, Littles, Arguing

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Cracks, Arguing, Argument

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

topic: Noise, Arguing, Argument

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction

- Mikhail Gorbachev

source: Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

topic: Arguing, Destruction, Polemics

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

topic: Strong, Leader, Arguing, Strong Leaders

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Wish, Arguing, Okay

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

- Neil Postman

topic: Ideas, Looks, Arguing, Shallowness

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

- Nevil Shute

source: Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”

topic: Stupid, Stupidity, Arguing

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

- Nick Hornby

topic: World, Arguing, Trouble, Introspection

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

- Nicky Cruz

source: Nicky Cruz (2017). “Run Baby Run”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Stories, Arguing, Opinion

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

- Nigel Calder

source: Nigel Calder (1969). “Violent universe: an eye-witness account of the commotion in astronomy 1968-69”

topic: Discovery, Agitation, Arguing, Raises Questions, Astronomers

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Arguing

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

- Norman Mailer

topic: War, Democracy, Arguing

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

- Oliver Kahn

topic: Games, Complaining, Arguing

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

- Paul Farmer

topic: Disease, Arguing, Should

That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.

- Paul Leary

topic: Beer, Technology, Arguing

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

- Paul Ricoeur

source: Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

topic: Umpires, Agreement, Arguing, Different Interpretations

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

- Paul Schrader

topic: Doctrine, Arguing, Driven, Calvinism

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich (1973). “Systematic Theology”, p.205, University of Chicago Press

topic: Essence, Doe, Arguing

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

- Paula Abdul

topic: Crazy, Arguing, Drive Me Crazy

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

- Pericles

topic: Ears, Arguing, Difficult

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

- Peter Jennings

topic: Arguing, Scholar

Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

- Peter York

topic: Arguing, Analysts, Grows

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Gold, Causes, Arguing

You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Thinking, Arguing, Universe

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

- Rachel Caine

topic: Arguing, Surprise, Claire, Surprise Me, Myrnin And Claire

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

- Ralph Hartley

topic: Numbers, Arguing, Argument

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

- Randall Dale Adams

topic: Smart, Arguing, Idiot, Smart Person

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

- Richard Bach

topic: Arguing, Limitation

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Fighting, Philosopher, Arguing

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Arguing, Discrimination, Intolerance

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

- Richard Neal

topic: Cutting, Towns, Arguing

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,

- Richard Rorty

source: Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

topic: Arguing, Talent, Chiefs, Cultural Change

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

- Rick Warren

topic: Mind, Complaining, Arguing

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

- Rob Thurman

source: Rob Thurman (2011). “Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.100, Penguin

topic: Koalas, Arguing

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

- Robbie Williams

topic: Arguing, Popularity, Wells

How can you argue with a woman who won't?

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Arguing

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

- Robert Gilpin

topic: World, Arguing, Economy, Structuralism, World Economy

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Defense, Arguing, Bigger

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

- Robert Owen

topic: Discipline, Arguing, Self Discipline, Assertion

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

- S. I. Hayakawa

topic: Guy, Different, Arguing

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You made me do it".

- Sam Horn

source: Sam Horn (2003). “Take the Bully by the Horns: Stop Unethical, Uncooperative, or Unpleasant People from Running and Ruining Your Life”, p.187, Macmillan

topic: Bullying, Devil, Arguing

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

- Sammy Hagar

topic: Gold, Albums, Arguing

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

- Samuel P. Huntington

topic: Civilization, People, Arguing

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

- Samuel R. Delany

source: Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Believe, Belief, Arguing

Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

- Sara Coleridge

source: Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136

topic: Waste, Would Be, Arguing

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

- Sarada Devi

topic: Men, People, Arguing

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

- Scarlett Thomas

topic: Memories, Water, Arguing

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

- Simon Cowell

topic: People, Records, Arguing

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

- Stacy London

topic: Style, Taste, Arguing, Personal Best

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Funny Inspirational, Fool, Arguing

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

- Steve Mann

topic: Records, Arguing, Action

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

- Steven Weinberg

topic: Science, Arguing, Argument

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

- Stuart L. Pimm

topic: Example, Arguing, Strategy, Extermination

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

- Susan Powter

topic: World, Needs, Arguing

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Arguing, Desperate, Haymitch

I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: People, Arguing, Easy, Finnick, Sensuous

If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.

- Suzanne Weyn

topic: Mean, Arguing, Tease, Antagonism, Scraping

I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.

- Sylvia Day

topic: Angel, Laughing, Arguing, You Know I Love You

Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!

- Terry Goodkind

topic: Want, Logic, Arguing

Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Cat, Thinking, Arguing

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

- Tim Noakes

topic: Sports, Body, Arguing, Marathon Motivational, Funny Running

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

- Tom G. Palmer

source: Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute

topic: Libertarian, Normal, Arguing

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

- Tom Vanderbilt

source: Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.141, Vintage

topic: Different, Arguing, Driving, Commuting, Harvard University

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon....

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: People, Ink, Arguing

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

- Trey Parker

topic: Humor, Sense Of Humor, Arguing

It's better not to argue with women,

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Arguing

Men argue. Nature acts.

- Voltaire

topic: Nature, Men, Arguing

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

- Walter E. Williams

topic: Different, Arguing, Nonsense

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Pride, Temptation, Arguing, Pretender, Sin Of Pride

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Communication, Arguing, Obsessed

Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less.

- William Cameron Townsend

topic: Arguing

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

- William Hague

topic: Trying, World, Arguing