Arguable Quotes

#1. Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

W. Arthur Lewis

#2. When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Julie Burchill

#3. It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.

John Hughes

#4. Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers.

Jim Ross

#5. It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death.

Jarett Kobek

#6. I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

Andrew Pyper

#7. There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

Bernie Sanders

#9. I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

David Brooks

#10. It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

Martin Amis

#11. I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.

Jim Harrison

#12. The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.

Laura Riding

#13. Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

Richard Dawkins

#14. There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

David Attenborough

#15. My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

Peter Greenaway

#16. It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Alex Carey

#17. For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

John Lyly

#18. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

Rachel Kushner

#19. All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.

Tony Horton

#20. If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him ... down to hell.

Honore De Balzac

#21. I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.

Steven Stamkos

#22. The Secret To The Universe Is Hidden Within Our Language. To Discover It Might Be To Destroy It - So It Should Forever Remain A Mystery, Or Forever May Fail To Be - EXCEPT When The Secret Is Revealed By THE CREATOR.

Melchizedek

#23. Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.

John Day

#24. We are small, but the universe is not.

Brian K. Vaughan

#25. If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'

Ron Suskind

#26. It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot