Quotes About Argument

Nej, bevis hade han inga. Men han hade sin övertygelse. Mot en övertygelse står sig de flesta bevis slätt.

Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea." "It's not hard at all!" Sophia shouted. "And what are you going to do about the Devil, then? He lives in Hell!" For a moment Grandmother considered saying that there was no Devil either, but she didn't want to be mean.

Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea

BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rose in on!

BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing "went on." Can we just not make a federal case out of everything?

Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Oh yeah, well, YOU'RE MISSING A WHOLE BRAIN," Daffodil shouted.

William Lane Craig, he wrote an essay titled "Dawkins's Delusion," which responds to Dawkins's book The God Delusion. Craig does his best to piece together Dawkins's argument against God's existence, which is really "embarrassingly weak.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.