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...

Their argument is extremely dangerous in the long term because it can be used to justify all kinds of things that I’m sure neither the president nor the attorney general has thought about. …The American...

There’s no argument for a quick spate of booking profits on the week as we’re sitting close to current lows, but the diminishing prospect of a rate cut in the UK combined with improving cash...

When was the last time you lost an argument?”He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, “A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl...

Has anyone ever told you that you’re unbearably rude?” she returned, facing him again.”Why, yes. You have on several occasions, as I recall. If you care to apologize for that, however, I’ll be happy to...

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back

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

Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above...

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their...

She said she was a loser, and I argued she was a winner. I won the argument, thus losing the argument because my winning made her a loser.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Kenny, when’s the last time you had a physical,” Roddy asks.”What’re you…the designated driver of my life?””Mad Dog House

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.

He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want?It was too polite, I said.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

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...

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

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?

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion...

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

‘Fat bitch,’ Kessa murmured as the door scraped closed behind Mrs. Stone. ‘She meant well, Francesca. And you see, everyone thinks you’re too thin.’ ‘Since when is Mrs. Stone an authority on appearance. I’ve heard...

Forgive me, madam,” he said lightly, amused, “but waiting to make love to you again is straining my nerves.” She scoffed but she was quite shaken; he could see it in her expression, in the...

I’M SCOTTISH!

Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not by arguments, but by focusing on what you do every day. If they...

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will...

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

I don’t like your tone,” was Violet’s standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

Your opponent’s wrong doesn’t automatically make you right. Most fights aren’t about who’s right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when...

But Curtis had come to the table with something they’d never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and out-lived in the modern age: a kind of fundamental righteousness that only the fundamental possessed. Unfettered...

I want to be strapped to a table, while a family of chickens argues over who gets to eat my legs.

I am a cuddly atheist… I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a silly notion… I am passionately concerned about the rise in pseudo-science; in beliefs...

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

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.

…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...

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

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals....

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of...

That’s precisely why the majority of the population voted me into public office.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

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...

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

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines; the ones you do not share are necessarily less central to the faith....

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...