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Quotes About Rebuttal

Well!" Mrs. Featherington huffed. "I never!" "No," Anthony replied. "You always.
~ Julia Quinn
Mr. Trump fights back. He doesn't fight back with one retort. He continuously reminds people.
~ Corey Lewandowski
Thomasina Correct? What was incorrect in it? (She looks into the book.) Alpha minus? Pooh! What is the minus for? Septimus For doing more than was asked. Thomasina You did not like my discovery? Septimus A fancy is not a discovery. Thomasina A gibe is not a rebuttal.
~ Tom Stoppard
Nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts.
~ George R. R. Martin
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.
~ Richard Dawkins
Badate bene che oggi per controbattere un'accusa non è necessario provare il contrario, basta delegittimare l'accusatore.
~ Umberto Eco
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
~ Gelett Burgess
The apologists have shot themselves in the foot.
~ Dan Barker
they've got another think coming
~ Chris Ryan
from the television show,Evade the Question Time] At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.
~ Jasper Fforde
Make sure you believe in your rebuttal to self-criticism. This rational response can take into account what was illogical and erroneous about your self-critical automatic thought.
~ David D. Burns
I don't really have a process. I just get agitated or aroused by an idea in the world, and then I want to give my rebuttal.
~ Neal Brennan
Hillary's America was met with outrage on the Left, but no one could rebut a single fact in the book or movie. Even my most incriminating allegations proved invulnerable. I noted that, in 1860, the year before the Civil War, no Republican owned a slave; all the four million slaves at the time were owned by Democrats.
~ Dinesh D'Souza