Quotes About Argument

Little of God, then a little of ghosts, is that it, bub?" as though our unfortunate argument were forgotten. "Well . . . keep a tight hold on it.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

I don't know if it was the cold sincerity in my voice or the shock of being straddled by a wild, mud covered woman, but he didn't try to argue. "Give me your ring. Now.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation before investigation.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor's at the stake.

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.

William Shakespeare

There's a skirmish of wit between them.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

you tell others that Christianity has become degraded, they may argue with you by saying that they have the Lord's presence in their meetings. We must admit this fact. It is true that the Lord is a sanctuary for a little while to those in captivity. We should not say that they do not have the real presence of the Lord at all; rather, we should point out that this is only a temporary sanctuary.

Descartes himself, as one will recall, experienced great difficulty in overcoming his celebrated doubts, and was able to do so only by way of a tortuous argument which few today would find convincing. Is it not strange that tough-minded scientists should have so readily, and for so long, espoused a rationalist doctrine which calls in question the very possibility of empirical knowledge?

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

It would have been so nice if evangelicals could have known of the Jewish traditions of dialogue, debate, argument, questioning. Instead we got inerrancy. Inerrancy made it wrong to question the literal face-value reading of any biblical text—ranging from the Sodom and Gomorrah story to Joshua's holy war texts.

Why me? All we do is argue." "That's why I want you

It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.