Quotes About Argumentative

#1. I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.

Peter Hammill

#2. At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.

David J. Lieberman

#3. Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.

Jonathan Miller

#4. There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

Peter Brook

#5. The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

Hilary Kornblith

#6. Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger.

Nelson DeMille

#7. I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded ... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Bill Bruford

#8. The more passionate and argumentative I get the more followers and friends I make online.

Tasha Turner

#9. The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

Robert Silverberg

#10. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

Les Brown

#11. I am a combative, inquisitive, argumentative person, and I will never allow anyone to change that.

Leah Remini

#12. Everyone complains about their children. I wonder, and not just to be argumentative: if children are such a pain in the ass, why have them?

Amara Lakhous

#13. I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

China Mieville

#14. The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people ... the more peaceful your life will become.

Mandy Hale

#15. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Byron

#16. Dwarfs are very argumentative, sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Surely this feisty, argumentative female could not be his life mate? Docile, he'd specifically written docile when he'd filled in his request for a mate. And this was who the spirits of his ancestors had chosen? A celestial jest on their part perhaps?

Eve Langlais

#18. I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.

Martin Pistorius

#19. Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Donald A. Wollheim

#20. RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

J. Maarten Troost

#22. Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy's sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I'm doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative.

Seth Rogen

#23. I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Giovanni Della Casa

#24. ...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo]

Allan Chapman

#25. I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic

J.G. Ballard

#26. If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

Donna Lynn Hope

#27. If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

Peter Steele

#28. Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.

Raphael Semmes

#29. The first purpose of clothes ... was not warmth or decency, but ornament ... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

Thomas Carlyle

#30. The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Vladimir Lenin

#31. He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#32. Arguing is the Olympics of talking

Stewart Stafford

#33. That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

Louisa May Alcott

#34. When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

Jackie Chan

#35. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

Steve Volk

#36. No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Auliq Ice