People Arguing Quotes

#1. Why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Brian D. McLaren

#2. Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alex Ferguson

#3. All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

Yasser Arafat

#4. I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

Timothy Leary

#5. The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#6. A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

Clive Thompson

#7. The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Pound

#8. I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

Linus Torvalds

#9. Lucas's position was supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap.

John Sandford

#10. Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

Paul Krugman

#11. When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

Matthew Carter

#12. Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself.

Nelson Mandela

#13. A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

Garrison Keillor

#14. Tonight was the CNN primary debate with the four remaining candidates. It was kind of a change for Newt Gingrich. Usually when he's arguing with three people at once, it's his wife, his ex-wife, and his mistress.

Jay Leno

#15. Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

Stephen Covey

#16. Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

Seth Godin

#17. I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

Emily Gould

#18. My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Ewan MacColl

#19. People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.

Peter Clines

#20. Too many people get away with truly awful 'reasoning', not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.

Ellie Rose McKee

#21. A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

Diane Dreher

#22. We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create ... It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do!

C.K. Webb

#23. Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

Sarada Devi

#24. Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Glen Duncan

#25. The main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

Steve Krug

#26. People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

Julian Casablancas

#27. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

Beck

#28. God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Richard Dawkins

#29. People in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.

Nora Ephron

#30. 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.

James Altucher

#31. Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

Mason Cooley

#32. Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#33. What if you died, and you found out that when you died, we all went to the same place. No Heaven, no Hell, doesn't matter what you did in life - you all go to the same place, regardless. I know a lot of nice people who will be really pissed off. You'll see Gandhi arguing with the doorman.

Dana Gould

#34. On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

Nelson Mandela

#35. Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#36. If you delve into and a part of the political wars, the - as I would call it, the arguing ad infinitum. It never ends, and very few people I've noticed ever change their mind.

Phil Robertson

#37. I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

Angelina Jolie

#38. Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Douglas Hurd

#39. I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.

Ted Cruz

#40. People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter, because I've been in touch with his accounting firm, Rosencrantz, Levy and Stern, and they're screwing him out of his profits.

Joan Rivers

#41. I shall not waste any more words on you," she said coldly. "Your mind is too closed to hear them.

Robin Jarvis

#42. I'm so bad with people I can't even win an argument with myself.

Mercedes Lackey

#43. Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

Joe Eszterhas

#44. Often after arguing about differing opinions, I hear people say, "let's agree to disagree." I look forward to a time, so open-minded I'll hear people say, "I'm right and you can be, too

Paula Heller Garland

#45. Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

Susan Orlean

#46. What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#47. When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.

Prince Charles

#48. Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

Ann Coulter

#49. I am pleased though that there's a possibility of a diplomatic solution [in Syria]. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I am pleased that it's a possibility and I think people like myself who've been arguing for delaying this bombing, have allowed this diplomatic possibility to occur.

Rand Paul

#50. Pal, if you ever look up the word right in a dictionary, you'll find it's one of the oldest words in the English language. Even so, people have never stopped arguing about what it means. I suspect they always will.

Avi

#51. I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

#52. You shouldn't be worried when people call, communicate, yell, argue, or cry for you. You should be worried when everyone is silent.

Behdad Sami

#53. No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.

Richard Harris

#54. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Raoul Vaneigem

#55. Why don't you tell people what happened last night"
"You slept on the sofa!"
"And why is that?"
"Because you're ... incompetent

R.S. Burnett

#56. Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

Bob Saget

#57. [The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

Robert Bork

#58. If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Scott Adams

#59. Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!

Kate Beckinsale

#60. When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

Jello Biafra

#61. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

T. Colin Campbell

#62. Irving Berlin said, "Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it." That doesn't mean it's good or bad - that's the equivalent of arguing the merits of hotdogs versus hamburgers. What the hell difference does it make?

Lester Bangs

#63. It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.

Ruth Rendell

#64. The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.

Ruth Davidson

#65. Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

David Crystal

#66. I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

Patti Smith

#67. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Joyce Rachelle

#68. I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

Meir Soloveichik

#69. Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

Robert Pattinson

#70. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

Frank Robinson

#71. You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

Charles King

#72. Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon ...

Tommy Lasorda

#73. Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace.

Jojo Moyes

#74. I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

Linus Torvalds

#75. I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another with defibrillators.

Dan Chaon

#76. Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

David Levithan

#77. To be honest, i put myself in the category of people who are best able to give form to their ideas by arguing

John Gianvito

#78. You can't force people to see truth. Arguing with them will only draw their attention away from it.

John Braun Jr.

#79. I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

Joe Posnanski

#80. Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Samuel P. Huntington

#81. People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

Megan Smith

#82. In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

Timothy Keller

#83. You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

L. Neil Smith