Argument Quotes

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

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

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

My life is my argument.

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.

There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.