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...

Well, that’s the most accurate thing you’ve said so far.”I grabbed the basket and jerked open the car door. Without another word, I stormed off, refusing to look back in case he saw the tears...

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

Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl’s a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud, and the town gone so...

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

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don’t like this kiss-and-forget.”But I don’t want to argue. I think it’s wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can’t it’ll...

Y’all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in without having to strain myself.

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ’s forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

One that would be a bad argument against him, as far as I am concerned, is … somebody suggesting that he is either anti-religious, or racist, or something like that, … Those of us who...

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

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

What happened was: they became a team, a family of two. There had been times before they ran away when they acted like a team, but those were very different from feeling like a team....

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

Have a compelling argument that speaks to the bottom line.

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80’s. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch’s postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. …...

At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn’t true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide,...

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with...

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

You could make a very strong and persuasive argument that Katherine Harris is responsible for George Bush being the president of the United States. That argument being made, it would seem to me her IOU...

Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this...

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the...

Don’t rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument; your choice of words may unmake what you made.

Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

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

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful Power and closeness of reasoning, has by far the best of...

I think there’s an argument that can be made to say they should be more lenient,

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

Pop, please, it’s hideous,” Trick said.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors’ house. If I’d really...

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

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...

I’m a writer by profession and it’s totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so...

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

Every arguments start from misunderstanding and ego

Ce n’est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.”(“It’s not the first time I’ve noticed how much more power words have than ideas,...

You can’t say ‘Oh my stars.’ ‘Oh my stars’ is not a thing, and it makes no sense. The whole point of that saying is that you’re calling out to someone for help, and stars...

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

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

I can quote you several examples where women were physically and violently hurt by men but at the same time, they were also supported by men. The numbers of course would always be out of...

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that ‘fine-tuning’ the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

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.

He’s wonderful at stirring up an argument and slinging around rhetoric. … For some of these people, it seems to be a theological issue. For us, it’s an analytic issue.

What’s all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.