Arguing Quotes - Page 10

• Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.

  Adam Gopnik

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.

  Hugh Prather

  Looks, Attention, Pay

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

  Terrell Owens

  Doctors, Guy, Said

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• You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Party, Writing, Order

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• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated.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

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

  Chris Barrie

  War, Impact, Effort

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

  William Penn

  Needs, Christ

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• To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ignorance, Giving, Intuition

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• Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

  J. I. Packer

  Thinking, Feelings, Looks

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• I want to say to all you Scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you that are going around pickin' little bits of doctrinal error out of everybody's eyes and dividin' the Body of Christ...get out of God's way, stop blockin' God's bridges, or God's goin' to shoot you if I don't...let Him sort out all this doctrinal doodoo!...I refuse to argue any longer with any of you out there! Don't even call me if you want to argue...Get out of my life! I don't want to talk to you...I don't want to see your ugly face!

  Paul Crouch

  Eye, Bridges, Errors

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• It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Self

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Loud Voices, Abortion, Remember

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• What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

  James Cook

  Believe, Simple, Simplicity

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• 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

  Answers, Come Up, Theory

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• In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

  Judy Woodruff

  Book, Technology, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

  Charlie Munger

  Numbers, Vices, Honest

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• Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

  Zig Ziglar

  Kids, Issues, Decision

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• When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Waste, Lord, Pastor

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you put yourself out there as an expert and the people you are trying to attract are people who want to do the very show you are doing, guys standing around, sitting around arguing with each other over sports, if you make a mistake that lights up like a flare in the middle of the night. You've just got to correct that or else they're going to say, 'Well, why do these dopes have that show? I can go out there and be just as good as them.'

  Tony Kornheiser

  Sports, Mistake, Night

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• You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.

  Joel Achenbach

  Men, Long, People

  "The Car of the Future". voices.washingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

  Terence McKenna

  Messages, Tvs, Watches

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• Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Men, Piano

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• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Magic, Add

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• My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brother, Thinking, Years

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• Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Self, Bass, Harmony

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