It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person

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.

I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.

You can’t fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn’t work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

If you can win an argument by stretching your lips with a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

It’s amazing–my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public “discussion”.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

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

Avoid the temptation of being drawn into silly debate. Don’t fall into trap set by those with hidden agendas. You have nothing to prove.

No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

N’aie pas peur de mes paroles: une morte ne veut plus rien, elle ne veut ni amour, ni pitié, ni réconfort.

In the heat of an argument I sometimes resort to thumb-sucking. It’s hard to have a serious fight when someone’s sucking their thumb.

There is nothing wrong with being wrong.

De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called ‘personal’ for a reason.

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can’t stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

Do not throw me out. Please.

People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It’s just your opinion vs someone else’s opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between opening a mind, changing an opinion or shutting the door. Sometimes folk just don’t know when they’ve “argued” enough. Learn...

Ove çould not in all honesty remember how it all started. It wasn’t the sort of dispute where you did remember. It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled that every new word was treacherously booby-trapped, and in the end it wasn’t possible to open one’s mouth at all...

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

Irene gasped. “Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?” she hissed. “Have you?”Stuart closed his eyes.”No,” he said. “Au contraire.” It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.”Don’t au contraire me,” said Irene.But it was too late. He had.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent’s position better than his opponent.

If you don’t want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort…only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

Is it me you’re describing, or yourself?

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed,” he said. “And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.””Excuses, eh?” Well, if this ain’t...

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

Very often the test of one’s allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first...

In life, toughness and roughness go together.

and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth of the matter.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June...

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

I’m past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I’d win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it’s made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

You are going to do some really stupid and mean things in the name of love. Don’t be so hard on yourself when things don’t turn out. You are a good person that loved deeply. Anybody worth having will know that hurting someone is not showing someone who you really are. You’re a sensitive person...