Quotes of: Argument Keyword

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

Rebecca MacKinnon

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Sarah Vowell

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Alistair Cooke

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Epicurus

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Elliott Smith

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

E. O. Wilson

What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.

Fela Durotoye

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Colin Firth

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Cullen Hightower

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Bill McKibben

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

George Henry Lewes

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

Jennifer Saunders

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

J. Michael Strazynski

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

James Taranto

I never lose in any argument, because I always make sure that my opponent wins.

Debasish Mridha

Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

Jack Horner

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

Malcolm Turnbull

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Guy Verhofstadt

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Newt Gingrich