Improve Your Argument Quotes

#1. My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

Desmond Tutu

#2. Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Desmond Tutu

#3. on another spree. I constantly looked for her when I was with Lucy

Patricia Cornwell

#4. I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

Flea

#5. For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.

Salman Rushdie

#6. I don't really wear lip gloss often, but I do like to wear a dab of lipstick. I put a dab on my lip and mix it with some of my chapstick, and people think it's my natural color!

Kristinia DeBarge

#7. Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

Roger Martin

#8. Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?

Robert Black

#9. Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".

Kevin Roose

#10. Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#11. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

#12. Milton was right,' said my Teacher. 'The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery. There is always something they prefer to joy - that is, to reality.

C.S. Lewis

#13. What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

John Green

#14. A calling is not some carefully crafted plan. It's what's left when the plan goes horribly wrong.

Anonymous

#15. The only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

Jon Wynne-Tyson

#16. I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Barbra Streisand

#17. But you must be sure of what you want the land for. And as for your tenants, if they don't own the land, don't expect them to make sacrifices. It never works, you know. Besides, the transition shouldn't create dislocations. It isn't easy to shift from agriculture to industry.

F. Sionil Jose

#18. Oh God, I heart him so much.

Robin Benway