Argument Quotes - Page 36

• The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Intelligent, Design, Answers

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• It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.

  George Clooney

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  "The Monuments Men - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

  Hosea Ballou

  Kindness, Weakness, Principles

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• Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

  Adam Clarke

  Mean, Ideas, Clear

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• O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Wings, Anxiety

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• What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Feelings, Prejudice, Able

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• The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

  Deborah Tannen

  Party, Thinking, Ideas

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• Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Writing

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• Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, War, Lasts

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• we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

  Beatrice Webb

  Fire, Answers, Speech

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

  Orville Dewey

  Heart, Doe

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• In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

  Matt Chandler

  Heart, Winning, Littles

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• Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

  Elihu Burritt

  Giving, Lightning, Oratory

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• Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Victory, Progress

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Lightning

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• suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Suicide, Defense, Lasts

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• Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

  Suzanne Enoch

  Looks, Compliment, Desperate

  Suzanne Enoch (2011). “A Beginner's Guide to Rakes”, p.195, Macmillan

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• Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.

  David Bentley Hart

  Atheist, Errors, Agency

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• Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Thoughtful, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.

  Robert Greene

  Simple, Style, Limits

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• What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Grief, Connections, Favors

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• What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

  People, Principles, More To Life

  "'Ed Miliband Has an Angry, Insurgent Side’". Interview with Gary Gibbon, www.channel4.com. September 26, 2011.

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• A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

  Pope Clement I

  Men, Self, Wicked

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• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  George Eliot

  Book, Reading, Men

  George Eliot (2010). “Middlemarch”, p.305, Lulu.com

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