Is it me you’re describing, or yourself?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

Do not throw me out. Please.

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.

There is nothing wrong with being wrong.

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.

Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak...

Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments...

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...

LADY BRACKNELLThis noise is extremely unpleasant. It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

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

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they’re ones no one can throw back.

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.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

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.

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.

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...

Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to...

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.

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.

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

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

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...

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity...

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.

Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

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

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

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....

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

We as Christians are called to battle. The problem is, we don’t fight about the right things and we do fight about the wrong things. We aren’t getting in the battle that we should and...

n order to capture someone’s attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

I’m sorry you don’t like coming back here,” her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they’d had. How could Emily explain: it wasn’t her mother or Kersey she’d disowned, but her earlier self,...

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

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

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

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...