Quotes About Argument

part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

hypothesis, the argument 'beneath' (hypo) the surface.

The men responsible were charged with grand theft. Their original defense, that dolphins are persons (humans in dolphin suits, one defendant said), was quickly thrown out by the judge. I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.

God knew that Leigh had witnessed her share of brutality, but she felt a sudden vulnerability sitting in a small room with two loud men who were arguing about bitches while the horrific evidence of a savage sexual assault flashed across the screen.

They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction.

She asked him, "Everything all right?" "It's good right now." He rubbed her back with his hand. "What did the shrink say?" Claire waited until the bartender had returned to his corner. "She said that I'm not being forthcoming about my emotions." "That's not like you at all." They smiled at each other. Another old argument that wasn't worth having anymore.

Her capacity for detail was astounding, if not highly annoying during arguments.

Claire?" Claire blinked open her eyes. She looked up at her mother, wondering why their faces were so close. "You fainted." "I didn't," Claire argued, though evidence pointed to the contrary. She was lying on her back in her own driveway. The policewoman was standing over her. Claire tried in vain to think of an insect the woman resembled, but honestly, she just looked overworked and tired.

There was nothing more vicious than a teenage girl. Maybe it was because boys were more capable of settling an argument with their fists, but girls at this age were much more conniving and torturous than anyone wanted to believe.

you can't have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.

Cher sang the song "If I Could Turn Back Time" about how she wished she could turn back time just so she could stop an argument that she'd had. If this is the sort of stupid thing people would be doing with time travel, I don't think we should encourage it.

I find I can get mundane jobs done pretty quickly when I'm in a mood. I often wash up pots if I've had an argument with Suzanne, and I do a thorough job in good time and then by the time I've finished I've calmed down. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a link between the rise in divorce rates and the introduction of the dishwasher.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.