Quotes About Arguments

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Beside the end rack there was a storage cabinet which Oleg swung open to reveal awkward stacks of audio tapes, each one carefully labelled. "I am all-seeing eye," he announced proudly. "What kind of stuff are you pulling these days?" "What you like? I got marital arguments, I got guerrilla uprisings, I got anarchist lovetalk, I got every auditory sexual deviance you couldn't imagine. I got serious . . . fucking . . . shit.

My arguments usually convinced Erica until she felt it again: the tiny sting of possible rejection - always ambiguous, always subject to many interpretations.

H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search. Both these obstacles exist in every large country known to me, except China, which is the last refuge of freedom.

I come now to Berkeley's empirical arguments. To begin with, it is a sign of weakness to combine empirical and logical arguments, for the latter, if valid, make the former superfluous.1 If I am contending that a square cannot be round, I shall not appeal to the fact that no Square in any known city is round. But as we have rejected the logical arguments, it becomes necessary to consider the empirical arguments on their merits.

Our judiciary has a reputation for intellectual rigour, careful consideration of the arguments, and a serious-minded determination to each decision based on what is right and not necessarily what is superficially popular. I am not sure that all politicians have the same reputation.

You cannot avoid controversy in this day and age - you really only can pick sides.

You want to tell him about the conversations they have, the arguments over things long forgotten. You want to impress on him how many stories everyone has within them, how much each death diminishes Friendship, especially with the young people leaving. But again, he's done enough. And he's young, you don't expect him to understand.

Contact sustained with other people's paranoias, which are multifarious and lie hidden behind the most tranquil personalities, work on us without our noticing, and if you don't watch out, you can end up investing your energy in silly arguments with people who devote their lives to irresponsible conjectures.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Parmenides and Zeno became famous for arguments which apparently cannot be refuted but which reach conclusions impossible to accept. These arguments provoke a crisis in philosophical accounts of the world; responses to it can be found in the cosmologies of Anaxagoras, Empedocles and the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

It was fine to argue that murderers always made mistakes, and sometimes they did. And sometimes they didn't, and there you were.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.