Arguing Quotations | Page 5

So," Annabeth said, "are you going to argue about me coming along?" "Nah. You'd just beat me up." Percy said. She managed a laugh, which was good to hear

If Bruce Jenner says he's woman then I'm not gonna argue with him. I know what obviously and biologically he is.

I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

It's better not to argue with women,

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it

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.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon....

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

So many laws argues so many sins.

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

How can you argue with a woman who won't?

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

Men argue. Nature acts.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

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

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.