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Quotes About Arguments

At the back end of my career I'd put myself in the situations you see in changing rooms. Where there is conflict, arguments, fights, players refusing this and that, players kicking off.
~ Scott Parker
Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.
~ James Carville
Those doubts you have I can assure you I know them too. But couldn't we perhaps go over together the philosophical arguments ... to help us both?
~ Graham Greene
People are misers of mental effort. If we don't have the interest or the capacity to look into the arguments, if the message isn't personally relevant, if we judge that we already know all we need to know about a topic, there is no reason to spend precious mental resources.
~ Kyle Hill
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
~ John Stossel
It cannot be stressed enough that there is no certain independent date for any of the archaeological material from earliest Rome or the area round about, and that arguments still rage about the age of almost every major find.
~ Mary Beard
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
~ Mary Shelley
His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity.
~ Mary Shelley
paused some time to reflect on all he had related, and the various arguments which he had employed.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In a...media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter...Information [can] become a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
~ Barack Obama
Stalin was desperately making up spurious arguments, and showed himself to be thin-skinned, an intellectual bully.
~ Stephen Kotkin
I usually call these endless discussions "religious debates," because they have a lot in common with most discussions of religion and politics: They consist largely of people expressing strongly held personal beliefs about things that can't be proven—supposedly in the interest of agreeing on the best way to do something important
~ Steve Krug
desde una perspectiva puramente basada en los hechos y la estadística, la raza no es en ningún sentido central para nuestros argumentos acerca del aborto y la criminalidad.
~ Steven D. Levitt
If you have to silence people who disagree with you, does that mean you have no good arguments for why they're mistaken?
~ Steven Pinker
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
~ Jose Padilha
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.
~ Jon Meacham
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
~ Peter Arnett
It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.
~ Chris Rea
Twitter is the perfect platform for the permanently outraged who want to express opinions through short statements without having to engage in proper arguments or defend positions.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
I used to have lot of arguments with my mother due to a lot of bruises on my body for trying my hand at wrestling. I used to say, 'I am Rock,' and I would get slapped.
~ Varun Dhawan
And when the good Doctor is finished ferreting out the difference between Animals and people, I will propose he apply the same arguments to the differences between the sexes, said Elphaba.
~ Gregory Maguire
These couples ease into arguments instead of blowing up immediately—and avoid bombs such as "You never . . ." and "You always . . .
~ Gretchen Rubin
These little debates are known as "flamewars.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Now pastor Jón Prímus laughed. Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by arguments. But humour he always listens to, even though it be ill humour.
~ Halldor Laxness