Quotes About Argument

There was little less appealing than being decisively contradicted while one was trying to make a grand point.

As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry.

Something shriveled inside Daphne at that moment, and she was very much afraid it was her heart. She didn't know how she was meant to argue with such a statement. Simon's hatred of his father was clearly far stronger than any love he might learn to feel for her.

We are not here to discuss my family," he ground out. "We are here to discuss your foolhardy behavior." "I refuse to acknowledge my behavior as fool-hardy. You would have done the exact same thing were you in my shoes.

I read the 'Guardian,' because it's a bit like having an argument with a mate. We mostly have the same sensibilities, but where we disagree, it's infuriating.

When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

I've tried to be graceful and I've tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.

She argued with him timidly, yet the awareness of this timidity was enough to push her on.

But as for the rest of you, sisters, when anyone says to you, this, that or the other is natural, then fight. Nature does not know best; for the birds, for the bees, for the cows; for men, perhaps. But your interests and Nature's do not coincide. Nature our Friend is an argument used, quite understandably, by men.

Why do you write? Because I want to persuade everybody to agree with me about everything, for their own good.

But th' best thing about a little judicyous swearin' is that it keeps th' temper. 'Twas intinded as a compromise between runnin' away an' fightin'. Befure it was invinted they was on'y th' two ways out iv an argymint.

We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

You cannot argue with [Satan], for he is the greatest debater of all time.

All life is an argument for death.

Unless the mind can fix the reality of an event in the actual instant of its happening, judgment soon dwindles into a confusion between memory and argument.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

All reasoning is basically circular. Logic is a device we use to make the circles as large as possible.

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.

People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.

Look at the scales, numb nuts. In her left hand. Some people think the scales are supposed to represent both sides of the argument—prosecution and defense. Others claim it is about fairness or impartiality. But think about it. Scales are really about balance, right? Look, I'm an attorney—and I know my rep. I know people think I subvert the law or use loopholes or bully or take advantage. That's all true. But I stay within the system." "And

stopped her by raising his hand. "I don't want to argue with you, Sara. I know you feel differently. Suffice to say that this is how I see it.

Where she would have had a spirited argument only, and exchange of ideas, a clash of hard and different points of view with a friend, with him she had tried to obliterate him.