Arguing Quotations

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong - if I'm hungry or hot, I'm probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

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.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

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.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

What they're arguing about right now is whether there's enough evidence. There's never enough evidence. There's never certainty in medicine.

We're not arguing so much anymore if this is a harmful chemical. Now the questions are, what are we going to do about this?

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

Insanity is arguing with reality.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

We were arguing over the color of the frosting and we don't even have a cake.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.