#argument

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#anyone #argument #christian #christianity #get

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#argument #been #greater #his #persuade

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do. ↗

— Charles Vest

#caused #changes #economic #every #fair

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#irony #neither #sarcasm

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ↗

— Steven Wright

#considered #got #i #into #long

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art #genuinely #good #good art #i

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#argument #book #determinism #feel #i

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. ↗

— Robert Half

#convincing #win #yourself