How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases.
Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.
It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.
In the 10 years I've been with my wife we've probably argued twice.
I've argued for a long time here... that I think that one of the things that is absolutely killing parity is the individual maximum salary.
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
Skynyrd is a big family. We have argued, fussed, and fought.
I've even argued with my mother.
My parents argued a lot. It was pretty tumultuous at times.
In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
We have not argued in either Brazil or Argentina that the IMF should step in to protect the banks.
But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
I argued constantly with my father [Pablo Escobar] because I never liked all the violence that he created.
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
[9/11] was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
I never argued against the position of the Chief Rabbinate on holy sites, including the Western Wall.
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.
With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.
What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
I have never, ever argued about money with any of my producers because that is the kind of relationship and understanding I have with them.
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