Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system.

We're arguing over who has the receipt for the groceries, and before you know it the police are on the scene. For some people, it doesn't take much.

Charles Bukowski

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

Daniel Handler

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

Benito Mussolini

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

C. S. Lewis

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Elizabeth Janeway

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

Sylvia Earle

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

Trent Reznor

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

Albert Einstein

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

Amanda Palmer

I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

Brad Feld

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong

Jamais Cascio

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

Jason Katims

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

People aren't arguing about the third quarter, they're arguing about what is going to happen now.

Robert Scoble

Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.

That Auburn game was embarrassing. We had a lot of fussing going on with defensive players. We were arguing about assignments and not playing together. We looked bad on national television.

Janet Reno

Larry Mackey is an experienced trial lawyer and an accomplished leader whose skills were instrumental to preparing and arguing the government's case in the first Oklahoma City bombing trial, ... The trial team is in very good hands.

I think even before Katrina I would have been through. I would have been arguing to pause, if I were still there.

is a really good lawyer, arguing really bad facts.

Eugenie Scott

When they say 'teach the controversy' their ringing phrase they want us to pretend to students that scientists are arguing whether evolution took place. This argument is not taking place.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

Chuck Klosterman

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

I was arguing the fact that the catcher had to go so high to get the ball and bring it down to tag our guy on the head. It was unfortunate the way things ended, but we shouldn't be caught in those situations. I probably should have pinch run for Mike in that situation, but I was thinking how tough it would have been had we gone extra innings without his bat in the lineup. It was a decision that didn't work out for us.

Let's stop arguing about it, let's pass the president's plan ... more prosecutors, more after-school programs. We can't sit by and watch these trends continue.

Sathya Baba

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

Now people are arguing with him about who he is and what he represents,

Sam Mendes

Obviously, there's a good bit of irony to that scene, ... A lot of what began in that first war (in 1991) can be extrapolated to what we're seeing today. I think those remain issues we should be talking about, even arguing about.

Several people who were there heard Dexter Bingham arguing with several men. They heard a shot, and Dexter died at the scene.

James Blake

Maybe we'll be humbled a little bit. I think a lot of us need that, so maybe we'll stop arguing with the umpires.