Arguing Quotes - Page 15

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.

I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

American managers often say they would like to pay their employees more, they argue that they can't afford to do so and, at the same time, keep the prices of their products competitive. As one CEO recently explained, "I would treat my employees as well as Starbuck's treats theirs, if I could charge the equivalent for my product of three dollars for a cup of latte!"

When a change initiative is focused on changing a company's culture directly, it can take five to ten years to accomplish its objective. Company cultures don't change easily. My friend Peter Drucker used to argue that company cultures don't change at all.

If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me...a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Germans argue with the Americans about many things, from the death penalty to the relationship between security and freedom. We have to be honest about these differences. And yet, whenever we quarrel with the Americans, it amounts to controversies over different interpretations of values we share. You can't say that about Russia. Vladimir Putin fundamentally questions Western values.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Without agreement you just have people arguing.

If someone says that I'm the best at anything, I always just agree with them. I'm certainly not gonna argue.

I would argue [Donald]Trump is the [Barack] Obama of this election cycle.

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

If you don't argue, you can't give in.