Quotes About Argument

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause.

They were at it again. Arguing. Shouting.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-" Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it was inapporopriate, she knew it was uncalled-for, but she couldn't stop herself. She just had to. "Oh, for God's sake," Ash said, hopping backward. "Are you crazy ?

This should keep the delegates of Science and Faith busy arguing in the halls. I AM descended from an angel. It's my goddamn genetic destiny.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?

After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown. You scream am so am so am so from the moment you're born, and they fire back are not are not are not from the moment they've got you, and on it goes until you can say it loudest.

Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature—but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end to their argument, we shall have none, not ever, until the end of all.

You can't get into the real meat of hatred and eternal enmity without love and betrayal, without that, it's just an argument with occasional gun music. The good stuff, the all-obliterating all-annihilating one-for-the-novels mano-a-mano crackling on the pork roast, that has to come, as the hermits will tell you, from attachment.

There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game if there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly. The trouble is, most people only argue with their friends and their family, which a real sportsman knows is no way to practice. If no one you know can prove you wrong, you're in peril and that's the truth.

My grandmother's ninety. She's dating. He's ninety-three. They're very happy; they never argue. They can't hear each other.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress,

They argued that women of the prophet's era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The

Rational argument does not always win over old-brain fear, particularly if one spouse tries to educate the other. Yet there is a simple rule of thumb that could have helped that professor: If reason conflicts with a strong emotion, don't try to argue. Enlist a conflicting and stronger emotion. One

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

Yet I made the purchase, captivated by the ring of truth, by the simple winning argument of the old man who told us plainly what he wanted.

How strange, I thought, that we are able to argue so well against ourselves but so ineffectively _for_ ourselves.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

although there may occur a few stages in his argument which are so trite that he can go through them by rote, much of his argument is likely never to have been constructed before. He has to meet new objections, interpret new evidence and make connections between elements in the situation which had not previously been co-ordinated. In short he has to innovate, and where he innovates he is not operating from habit.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.

Control the language and you control the argument.