Quotes and Sayings About Arguing
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I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.
-- Lexa Doig -
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
-- Lionel Shriver -
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
-- Liz Phair -
I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.
-- Lotte Lehmann -
I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!
-- Mandy Patinkin -
With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?
-- Marcello Mastroianni -
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.
-- Mark Rippetoe -
Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.
-- Marshall Sahlins -
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
-- Mary Douglas -
... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.
-- Mary Russell Mitford -
Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.
-- Meg Cabot -
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.
-- Neil Postman -
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
-- Nevil Shute -
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 -
One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.
-- Nick Hornby -
You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.
-- Nicky Cruz -
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
-- Nigel Calder -
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
-- Noam Chomsky -
We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.
-- Norman Mailer -
Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
-- Oliver Kahn -
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
-- Paul Farmer -
That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.
-- Paul Leary -
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.
-- Paul Schrader
