Reasoned Argument Quotes

#1. Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.

Walter J. Moore

#3. The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

#4. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Richard Dawkins

#5. There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act - a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.

Jon Krakauer

#6. If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

C.S. Lewis

#7. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. My lips take control, and they're anything but tentative. Desperate for her to accept everything I offer, I realize I'm falling for Daisy in a way she better be ready for.

Bijou Hunter

#9. I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Douglas Crockford

#11. Mr. nelson sighed and stalked across the room to me. He thrust the velvet box into my hands. I cracked the box, and the sound echoed through the room. A glittering diamond stared back at me. But it wasn't just any diamond. It was two carats of commitment in a platinum setting.

Katie Ashley

#12. To be tall and forbidding might command respect for a time, but not affection. To be overly familiar might command affection for a time, but not respect.

Jon Meacham

#13. For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.

Michael Frayn

#14. Broken hearts are like cuts you hate them but you have them.

Britney Spears

#15. I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Denise Juneau

#16. Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

Rebecca Pippert

#17. I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#18. Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

Norman Mailer

#19. Instantly, Lucinda fell to the floor in a swoon-" Bronwyn groaned. "Not again!

Karen Hawkins

#20. The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.

Miriam Toews

#21. Like all power, psychic power had a flip side. Changelings could turn feral. Psy could turn murderously insane.

Nalini Singh

#22. A feeling that He's right here with you or that you're miles apart, is the difference of a prayer with love, or with an absence of the heart.

Lisa Mischelle Wood