Arguing Quotes - Page 9

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

  Richard G. Scott

  Be Kind, Kind

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• The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.

  Judith Miller

  Gun, Clouds, Mushrooms

  "Threats And Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest For A-Bomb Parts" by Judith Miller and Michael R. Gordon, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.

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• People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosophical, People, Intuition

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• Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!

  Kate Beckinsale

  People, Embarrassed

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• The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Humanity, Nuclear

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• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, God Love, Masters

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

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• Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

  Jesse Jackson

  Views, Order, People

  "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.

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• Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Argument, Dramatic

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• Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

  Hugh Prather

  Passion, Certain, Convinced

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Nomenclature, Waste, Pedants

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.186, Baen Books

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• I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

  Rebecca Mead

  Experts, Tickets, Economic

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.

  Adam Gopnik

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.

  Hugh Prather

  Looks, Attention, Pay

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Rude, Political

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

  Terrell Owens

  Doctors, Guy, Said

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• You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Party, Writing, Order

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• I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

  Jim Cummings

  Mad, Rooms, Apologizing

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• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

  Chris Barrie

  War, Impact, Effort

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

  Steven Harrison

  Feelings, Sitting, Improvement

  Steven Harrison (2005). “What's Next After Now?: Post-spirituality and the Creative Life”, p.61, Sentient Publications

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• I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Issues, Accepted, Rejected

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• We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

  William Penn

  Needs, Christ

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• To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ignorance, Giving, Intuition

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