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Argument Quotes - Page 16

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

"'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.394, Random House

A gun is not an argument.

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.16, Penguin

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.83, Macmillan

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly (2001). “The poetry blues: essays and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.135

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

Will Rogers (1973). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts”