Quotes About Discussion

Wenn ich den Eindruck hätte, dass in dem, was Sie da sagen, auch nur ein Körnchen Vernunft steckt, würde ich mir vielleicht die Mühe machen, mich auf eine solche Diskussion einzulassen. Aber wie die Dinge liegen, werde ich einfach an etwas anderes denken, während Sie weiter vor sich hin plappern.

Still up for talking about your powers? What you've been feeling?" "Absolutely." Unfortunately, any discussion of my powers led to thoughts of shape-shifting, which led to thoughts of Annie, which led to worry. Worry? Hell, no. Let's call it what it really was. Outright panic.

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

Von Henscher said: "What about Japan? Is there any chance the Japs might be persuaded to attack the Panama Canal, or even California?" "Realistically, no," Walter said firmly. The discussion was venturing farther into the land of fantasy. But von Henscher persisted. "Nevertheless, the mere

he avoided political discussions with outsiders. They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.

George did not press Joe. He was scared enough himself. If he started to discuss the dangers he might talk himself out of going. He looked around the group. He was pleased to see John Lewis, a quietly impressive theology student who was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the most radical of the civil rights groups.

We shouldn't be talking of politics. Women ought to leave such matters to their husbands.

La discussion du jour porterait assurément sur la politique. Anthony était revenu la veille d'un séjour de deux semaines à Gloucester où il avait assisté à l'inhumation du roi Edouard II, qui avait perdu son trône au mois de janvier, puis la vie en septembre.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

We need to realize that without some notion of historical recurrence, no one can meaningfully discuss the past at all.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

If we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are.

We're not arguing, we're discussing

After sitting through my lecture on white supremacy—its origins, reach, and consequences—one of my students said to me, "I couldn't have taken another minute of that." I said, "Good, then it was the right amount."

In one of the rare moments that he discussed his private beliefs, Lincoln declared he would join a church if he found one whose only requirement was to follow the Golden Rule.

My face grew hot. "We were discussing the investigation," I told him quickly. "He was here a quarter of an hour at the most." Father smiled at me sadly. "My dear girl, if you din't know what mischief can be gotten up to in a quarter of an hour you are no child of mine.

Why must you argue before I even have my tea? So many words.

God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.