Top 36 Less Talk Less Argument Quotes
#1. People often say "God gave you two ears but only one mouth because He wants you to listen twice as much as you talk." Using that same argument, God gave me 104 keys on my keyboard, but only one mouse cursor. I guess He wants me to write more than I surf.
Christopher M. Thompson
#2. During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say.
Paul Stanley
#3. A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want
Leonard Wibberley
#4. Those who live no more, whom we loved, echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts. And what they did and who they were becomes a part of all we are, forever.
Richard Fife
#5. You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
Alberto Fujimori
#6. When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called 'Principle'.
Dada Bhagwan
#7. I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.
John Deacon
#8. I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Arthur C. Clarke
#9. I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.
Iain Banks
#10. Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.
Michael Arrington
#11. I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.
Margaret Heffernan
#12. In other words, the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.
Walter Benjamin
#13. I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom Stoppard
#14. A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
Rowan Williams
#15. It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#16. I'm no mathematics whizz, but even I know that when the variables start piling up, it's time to ditch the equation and see if you can find a cheat sheet.
David E. Manuel
#18. Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.
Elton John
#19. When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
Mark Twain
#20. Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my mind that's an argument against the existence of an omniscient force. I think people believe whatever makes living easiest, and who am I to deny someone comfort?
Ann Aguirre
#22. What I suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe.
Mark Twain
#23. You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have an argument, walk out the door.'
Stephen Moyer
#24. The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'
Jensen Ackles
#25. Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner
#26. Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald
#28. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#29. A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have similar challenges. One could make the case that it's nurture, not nature because these twins were brought up together, but you can't rule out the genetic argument.
Laura Berman
#30. Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind. - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell
#31. If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
Brian Clough
#33. When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.
Serena Williams
#34. What was that about?" he asked his voice deep with a bitter distain.
I raised an eyebrow at him, "What was what about?"
"All that, 'Are-you-okay?' and 'Do-you-want-to-talk-about-it?' crap."
"I was being nice. You know, that thing you being the total opposite of right now.
Sara Massa
#35. I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.
Jimmy Wales
#36. I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.
Chuck Todd
