To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it – may be not about the characters, nor about the piece,...

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!

It’s easier to win an argument over a dinner you’re paying for.

Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If you say he was transcendent then and needed no support, where is he now? How could God have made this...

Don’t start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don’t. They’ll make you look like chopped liver.

She told me she might not be there when I get back, and I got so angry I said something stupid. I told her I might not be there when I get back either.

When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

You could argue I’m a loser, but I’d win that debate thus proving you wrong by proving you wrong.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that — using logic as a weapon.

De Bono argues that the West’s tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on tocommit suicide, and others were argumentative.

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point…. Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side:­ tradition, the concurrence of mankind, and all the consolation they yield? Yes, why not? Just...

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument

I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father’s hand. “What’s this?” he asked, raising a brow. “You’ll need it to sign my death certificate,” I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. “Are we done...

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right

Chen is using the tactic of violating the ‘five noes’ with the argument that the situation has changed.

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater...

I’m a politician. I’m not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.

Silence is the best defence for any argument.

…I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument. Forget the years; forget distinctions....

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? – Damon

He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he’s won the argument not because he is correct but because you can’t outwit him.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall men are angry, for they cannot pass easily through the...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can’t cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

I think the conference is as strong, if not stronger, than last year. Could an argument [for five NCAA teams] be made today? I think so.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one’s arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

It wasn’t an attack. We’d been together too many times before, made love together too many times before, for it to be that. It was just that fear had suddenly entered, and made us dangerous strangers.(“New York Blues”)

I just had an argument with my husband and I was so disappointed with his point of view, … And the sad part is that a lot of people share his view, which is that music isn’t about music any more. It’s about image.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

A balanced argument is one that takes place entirely in my head, and doesn’t cause me to tip over.

They’re going to try to make an argument that simply cutting wages, slashing benefits, etc., is not the only way to go. Whether the bankruptcy judge buys that remains an open question.