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Quotes About Arguments

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My wife and I have many arguments but she only wins half of them. My mother-in-law wins the other half.
~ Terry Bechtol
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks
~ Bob Geldof
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
~ George Whitefield
But one of the Miasma's perversities was that it made otherwise sane people like him—people who had better things they could have been doing—devote energy to arguing with completely random fuckwits, many of whom probably didn't even believe in their own arguments, some of whom weren't even humans.
~ Neal Stephenson
Differences in opinion enrich the diversity of a nation, and ought to be cherished and respected in any free society, provided everyone remains free to disagree with one another and, most importantly, everyone remains open to rational arguments that could change your mind.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that's the thing—you're a couple, and couples can't function without trust.
~ Nicholas Sparks
She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects of which we have no experience, resemble those of which we have; that what we have found to be most usual, is always most probable; and that where there is an opposition of arguments, we ought to give the preference to such as are founded on the greatest number of past observations.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You're angry with the Empire for treating people unfairly, a legitimate concern, but a government cannot please everyone. There will inevitably be arguments and conflicts
~ Christopher Paolini
And I'd never heard Mother and Father argue before.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Every strange thing you see everybody do," she said, "that's it. That's the fear. Every time you look at a person and their behavior is a mystery to you, that's their fear. All the rage you see in the world. All the arguments and the wars and the guns. All the loud music and the big monster trucks and the expensive, fancy cars, and the political rallies. That's all the fear that people don't want to admit they have.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.
~ Glenn Beck
If we are really going to debate how criminals might access, modify, convert or adapt guns to fit their needs, then we can put all of the other arguments behind us right now, because none of them make a difference. That said, it's pretty telling just how weak your argument is when you have to resort to a 'yeah, but criminals might...' stance to make your point.
~ Glenn Beck
The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also so absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is one of the things that makes history. Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever.
~ James Baldwin
quarreling avails nothing.
~ James Clavell
I make it a policy never to argue with drug lawyers: they have decent arguments and the best drugs.
~ James Crumley
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~ James Gleick
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~ Milton Friedman
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
~ Freeman Dyson
Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians' bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.
~ Mike Pompeo
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
~ Dante Alighieri