Argument Quotes - page 7

He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. (Rick Riordan)
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
.. The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. View quote
Phyllis Diller
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force. View quote
Hans Eysenck
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to be complemented with an overview, which I think is scientific commonsense. View quote
David Christian
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. View quote
Joseph Farrell
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you. View quote
E. Lockhart
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. (Elihu Root)
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. View quote
Cass Sunstein
As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. View quote
Christopher Buckley
I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like. View quote
Michael Fox
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. View quote
Peter L. Berger
I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny. View quote
Wes Anderson
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. View quote
Wendell Berry
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team. View quote
Mark Millar
Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws. (Alfred Tarski)
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not... View quote
Graham Chapman
[Responding to the argument that a plant-based diet is extreme] Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that "extreme.”. View quote
Caldwell Esselstyn
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. View quote
Andrew O'Hagan
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message. View quote
Anthony Holden