Top 100 Quotes About Arguing
#1. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
C.S. Lewis
#2. You're coming up to the main house and that's final. I'm laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you're arguing with me, but I'm not taking no for an answer. You have no choice but to obey me. How do you like that, wife?
Mia Sheridan
#3. Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs ... shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
Bill Hicks
#4. The good thing about the truth is it's true, and there's no arguing with the truth. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Kami Garcia
#6. Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#7. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
Moses Finley
#8. But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.
Mark Rippetoe
#9. So you're my boss now," I snap.
"Technically, I'm you're boss's boss's boss."
"And technically, it's gross moral turpitude- the fact that i am fucking my boss's boss's boss."
"At the moment, you're arguing with him." Christian scowls.
E.L. James
#11. There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.
Roger Ebert
#12. A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.
Elizabeth Janeway
#13. Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
Hugh Prather
#14. Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.
Junot Diaz
#15. It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
Oswald Chambers
#16. My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
Diana Ross
#17. There is only one thing worse than arguing with a drunk,' Faradan Sort said, 'and that's arguing with a drunk who's right.
Steven Erikson
#18. Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is.
Raheel Farooq
#19. 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
#20. This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!
Richard Feynman
#21. You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.
Harry Blamires
#22. Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.
Mason Cooley
#23. 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
#24. We are arguing like a man who should say, if there were an invisible cat in that empty chair, the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it.
C.S. Lewis
#25. 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
#26. When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#27. Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.
Randall Dale Adams
#29. You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George W. Bush. It's like Leftist Tourette's Syndrome. "Why did Obama blow out the budget?" "BUUUUUUUSHHHH!!!!!
Ben Shapiro
#31. Love isn't jealous. It's kind and patient. It's accepting--it's late night talks and early morning kisses. It's arguing and making up. It's life with the one you can't live without.
Marquita Valentine
#32. I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
Winston Churchill
#33. Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
Mary Douglas
#34. It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.
Neal Shusterman
#36. It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.
Ruth Rendell
#37. I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'
Roy Keane
#38. 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
#39. I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard."
"You'll never find out. You--------"
He kissed me.
~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner
Lisa Kleypas
#40. A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
Howard G. Hendricks
#41. There's no arguing, no needling, no discussion. It is quiet and awkward and terrifying.
Luchia Dertien
#42. A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,
Richard Rorty
#43. (who was arguing with a spokesman for the bulldozer drivers about whether or not Arthur Dent constituted a mental health hazard, and how much they should get paid if he did)
Douglas Adams
#44. I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
Rachel Caine
#46. It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
Erich Fromm
#47. God can be seen
Even by the poorest fool,
But not by the self-styled,
God-arguing
Intellectual giants.
Sri Chinmoy
#48. 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
#49. Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.
Lisa Kleypas
#50. The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.
Marilyn Ferguson
#51. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
Cecil Jacobson
#52. I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing.
John Gordon Morrison
#53. You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.
Charlie Munger
#54. I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
Chris Hayes
#55. The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
Gerry Spence
#56. It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother.
Ramez Naam
#57. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.
Stephen Richards
#58. I know you're angry," he told her.
"You threw me into a tree."
"I had to.
G.A. Aiken
#59. I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.
Elie Wiesel
#60. If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith,
DeVon Franklin
#61. 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
#62. Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!
Kate Beckinsale
#63. Maxon, you were the one who said you wanted to stop arguing. So stop giving me reasons to argue with you!
Kiera Cass
#64. Why am I arguing with a computer?
Edge
#65. I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.
Marc Maron
#66. You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
S.I. Hayakawa
#67. In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as many jobs as there are workers. The government will make the jobs.
Isabel Paterson
#68. You cannot obtain more truth for a fixed proposition by arguing it. To improve our beliefs, we must necessarily change our beliefs.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#69. [T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.
Jon Meacham
#70. 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
#71. Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.
Richard Dawkins
#72. August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.
Jeanette Winterson
#73. 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
#74. Two arguing geeks were stoppable. Three arguing geeks created an infinite argument vortex of doom that sucked time down like a black hole.
Delphine Dryden
#75. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.
DeVon Franklin
#76. In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.
Herbert A. Simon
#77. The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.
Bill Cosby
#78. In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo
#79. Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.
Zack Ryder
#80. The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#81. I love and I hate, and I love arguing with you. It's very new. I need to know that we're okay. It's the only way I know how.
E.L. James
#82. Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service.
Marvin J. Ashton
#83. We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.
Benjamin Hooks
#84. 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
#85. Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.
Bob Saget
#86. Oh, and I spend a lot of time on The Walking Dead reddit. Too much time. Last night I stayed up until two a.m. arguing with some neckbeard about whether or not you could kill a zombie with another zombie's spinal column.
Sierra Simone
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
Jonathan Mayhew
#90. If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.
Ted Nugent
#91. You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!
Robbie Williams
#92. We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.
Norman Mailer
#93. 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
#94. The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.
William Warburton
#95. 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
#96. The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.
Edith Wharton
#97. If I'm right
and I know that you know I right
I'm not going to continue going back and forth with you about it.
Why should I waste time arguing with idiots?
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#98. My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
Gene Tierney
#99. What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.
Allen Tate
#100. I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
