A Quotes
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“Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
“Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.”
Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
“Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.”
“Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is.”
“Arguing with a man doesn't work.”
“Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click I agree.”
Source: Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
“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.”
“Arguing with Islamophobes is pointless; deeper psychological issues need treatment, not debate.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Arguing with one's self is beneficial.
Out of all the million voices in my head screaming for your death, you're lucky I heeded the one that wants to spare you this time.”
“Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.”
“Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.”
Source: A Friendly Universe: Sayings to Inspire and Challenge You
“Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.”
“Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.”
“Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.”
“Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.”
“Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.”
Source: The making of the representative for Planet 8
“Argument is between two sides or individuals, never say silly to your friend because he/she never argue on oneself.”
“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.”
“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.”
“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic
“Argument is not always truth.”
“Argument is the worst sort of conversation.”
Source: The Sayings of Jonathan Swift
“Argument is to me the air I breathe.”
“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
“Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.”
Source: Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year
“Argument should be polite as well as logical.”
“Argument weak; speak loudly!”
“Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.”
“Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.”
Source: Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith
“Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.”
“Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.”
“Arguments against eternal life
- Only rich people will get it (No tech has ever done this.)
- Better to give money to the poor than science. (Family, city, state, nation, has proven local investment beats foreign.)
- Dead people make more room for new, other people. (Consider going first.)
- Run out of resources. (Live people discover/extract/renew better than dead or nonexistent.)
- Overpopulation. (Colonize the seas, solar system, or have a war.) Stop having kids.
- Worse wars. (Nukes are more dangerous than having your first 220-year-old person in 2136)
- Dictators never die. (They die all the time and rarely of age.)
- Old people are expensive. (50% of your lifetime medical costs occur in your final year. Delay is profitable.)
- Old people suck. (Death is an inferior cure to robustness.)
- You’ll get bored. (Your memory isn’t that good, or your boredom isn’t age related.)
- You’ll have to watch your loved ones die. (So you prefer they watch you?)
- Like Tithonus, you’ll live forever in a terrible state. (Longevity requires robustness.)
- Against God’s will. (Not if he disallows suicide, then it is required.)
- People will force you to live forever.
Do you think less people make progress faster? What’s your target level of depriving life of existence?”
Source: sciVive
“Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.”
“Arguments are a wrestling sport for some. They will smartly drag you into their rink and defeat you effortlessly. The only way to win in their rink is to stay silent.”
Source: Quantraz
“Arguments are born as a result of the difference between the two perspectives. {Argument = Perspective A - Perspective B}”
Source: Quantraz
“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.”
“Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.”
“Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.”
“Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.”
“Arguments are tempting but injurious to relationships.”
Source: Quantraz
“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Source: The Happy Prince
“Arguments are too much like disputes.”
Source: Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)
“Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.”
Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
“Arguments can’t be the only common thing between two people in a relationship.”
Source: Quantraz
“Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.”
“Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.”
Source: Prodigal Summer