Pointless Argument Quotes

#1. But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

Zhuangzi

#2. History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Andrew Marr

#3. Connection was the thing, whether through bed, bottle, grand inquisitorial session.

Anthony Burgess

#4. Blood, sweat and fingers.

Bonnie McCune

#5. I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.'
That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing ...

C.S. Forester

#6. We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be.

Gigi Graham

#7. We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

Chico Hamilton

#8. You cannot love freedom for yourselves alone and quietly agree to a situation where the majority of humanity, spread over the greater part of the globe, is subjected to violence and oppression.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. I think clapping is how mourn.

Bob Hicok

#10. If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#11. This part of Alabama is swampy, with mosquitoes that could murder a buffalo, given half a chance, not to mention dangerous flying roaches and a posse of local rats big enough to haul a wagon train from here to Timbuctoo.

Truman Capote

#12. We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Bob Inglis

#13. Love the overuse of exclamation points!!!! Yes!!! They add a lot of emphasis!!! to what your character is saying!!!

L.R.W. Lee

#14. Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

Jim Thome