Quotes About Debate

Writes Webber: This conflict of style has continued in the twentieth-century debate about traditional versus contemporary worship. Traditional worship seems to be hanging on to modernity while contemporary worship has capitulated to pop culture. In either case the debate continues to rage about style with little concern for a biblical theology of worship. 8

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.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

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

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

I think it's interesting to me to talk to people who don't agree with me all the time.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).