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Quotes About Argument

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.
~ Lemony Snicket
Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.
~ Lemony Snicket
Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. Just the other day, for example, it was useful and necessary for me to have an unpleasant argument with a medical student because if he hadn't let me borrow his speedboat I would now be chained inside a very small waterproof room, instead of sitting in a typewriter factory typing our this woeful tale.
~ Lemony Snicket
But that's another error in the note," Klaus said. "It doesn't say un bearable, with a U. It says in bearable, with an I." " You are being unbearable, with a U," Violet cried. "And you are being stupid, with an S," Klaus snapped.
~ Lemony Snicket
It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.
~ Lemony Snicket
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
~ lenin vladimir iv
There is no arguing with Johnson, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of
~ Leo Damrosch
Mr. Samuel Goldwyn once remarked, during a dinner table argument about psychiatry: "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
~ Leo Rosten
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
~ Leo Strauss
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Why? Because intercharacter conflict works its magic. What Rose (the writer) did was bring together twelve distinct characters, each with his own background, baggage, and personality, and throw them into what is essentially a great, big argument. Therein lies the real untapped secret of creating conflict: orchestration. That means you cast your characters so they have the potential of conflict with every other character.
~ James Scott Bell
Non capisci una fava. Celina lifted her chin to him. Tu sei una fava, she shot back. He was the one who didn't know anything.
~ Jan Moran
The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.
~ Jane Austen
The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked an argument. When I tried to be the voice of reason, when I pointed out that it might be wiser to continue what I mildly referred to as, "the discussion," she flew off the handle again. Later, in jest, she accused me of being more even and mature than any reasonable person could tolerate.
~ Jane Hamilton
Are we fighting? I asked Morelli. No. Were discussing. Are you sure? Am I yelling? Morelli asked. Is my face purple? Are the cords on my neck standing out? Am I waving my arms around? No. The were not fighting.
~ Janet Evanovich
I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. "Killing is wrong." "We kill chickens," Mr. Wexler said. "We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers." It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.
~ Janet Evanovich
You're scum, Morelli! You're scum!
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists still argue whether specific types of neurons are unique to humans. But there is no disputing that neurons are only about 10 percent of the cells in the human brain.
~ Thomas R. Insel
It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics.
~ David Hepworth
You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.
~ Brit Hume
Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
~ Deborah Tannen
It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
~ Tamron Hall