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Quotes About Argument

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he's now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.
~ Scott Glenn
My last conversation with my father was an argument we'd had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I'd lost him within seven hours. I still regret the last conversation with him.
~ Mouni Roy
I love to argue and share bright ideas in a rehearsal room, and when you live with somebody who is working on the same show, the delight can go on all evening!
~ Roger Rees
In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.
~ Mark Helprin
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
~ William Goldman
I'm not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate.
~ Andrzej Duda
We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.
~ Leroy Hood
I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.
~ Gillian Flynn
I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved.
~ Gillian Flynn
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
~ Giordano Bruno
O ponto é o princípio ou a origem da linha, mas não sua causa; o instante é o princípio ou a origem da atividade [mas não a causa do ato]; o ponto de partida é o princípio do movimento, mas não a causa do movimento; as premissas são os princípios do argumento, mas não sua causa.
~ Giordano Bruno
My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
~ Glen Cook
It would be hard enough to win the Empire to Christianity without Christians arguing among themselves about what they were supposed to believe.
~ Glenn S. Sunshine
You're a crafty old woman. You always try to win an argument by talkin' about some funeral. You're too ornery to die, and you know it.
~ Gloria Naylor
Tu quoque is the best defense.]
~ Gore Vidal
Caitlin is right, although her argument would probably offend every woman on the jury.
~ Greg Iles
Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument. Jealousy can raise the dead with a single, spiteful taunt, or hate a perfect stranger for nothing more than the sound of his name.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
~ Ben Miller
I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.
~ Andy Kindler
I'm not afraid of confrontation. It doesn't have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to.
~ Adam Goodes
Are you asking for a raise? Do your research and know your market value. Having an informed sense of your worth, as dictated by the broader marketplace, will give you greater confidence in requesting increased compensation. It's tough to dispute someone who can back up her assertions with facts and a smart, articulate argument.
~ Ivanka Trump
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
~ Jerry Saltz