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Quotes About Argument

Anyway, half of them are police agents. It's the first principle, isn't it? Whoever's arguing fiercest for violence is the cop.
~ China Mieville
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
~ Chinese proverb
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool
~ Chinese Proverbs
PRINCIPLE 1: SIMPLICITY How do we find the essential core of our ideas? A successful defense lawyer says, "If you argue ten points, even if each is a good point, when they get back to the jury room they won't remember any.
~ Chip Heath
THE DOWNSIDE OF PROVOKING disagreement is that it can curdle into bitter politics.
~ Chip Heath
Loewenstein argues that gaps cause pain.
~ Chip Heath
Love. There's no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
They had been quarrelling for as long as they had been in love.
~ Chris Adrian
And in the midst of it all stood a middle-aged man and woman in their bedclothes, arguing violently.
~ Christa Faust
Acaso ignoras que lo que más se discute y debate es precisamente lo que más valor tiene?
~ Christine de Pizan
I wasn't going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." "I'm already asleep. You're the one gabbing.
~ Christine Feehan
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
~ Christopher Buckley
There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.
~ Christopher Buckley
Getting jobs is like winning domestic arguments on a grand scale, and then getting paid for it.
~ Heidi Julavits
When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she is often made to feel that this is a mark of social inadequacy and that there is something comical about it. The younger the human being, the more humorous it becomes. So that humans whose inclination it is to think and speak in this way become self-conscious from an early age, and a kind of minstrelisation creeps in.
~ Helen DeWitt
The military rebels issued secret orders dating back to April 1936 that indicated maximum force was to be used: this was violence as the end of the argument over constitutional reform.
~ Helen Graham
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
~ Helen Hunt
T)hey talked as only Russians can. Not listening to each otehr, repeating the self-same argument over and over again, excelling in pantomime and reaching the uppermost heights of drama.
~ Helen Rappaport
I didn't know I had a quarrel with him.
~ Henry Thoreau
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
~ Henry Waldorf Francis
Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.
~ Leonard Cohen