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Argued for an hour on the telephone. now looking at pictures of carbs -- Megan Boyle
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. -- Philip Massinger
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. -- Jacques Derrida
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. -- Francis Collins
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. -- Fran Lebowitz
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. -- Charles Krauthammer
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. -- John Yoo
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. -- Shimon Peres
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down. -- Benjamin E. Mays
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. -- Camille Paglia
It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number. -- Bhumibol Adulyadej
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. -- Lawrence Lessig
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. -- Earl Warren
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. -- Martin Feldstein
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. -- Gloria Steinem
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. -- Richard Nelson Bolles
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. -- Will Self
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. -- Janet Yellen
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel. -- Natan Sharansky
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available. -- Sam Harris
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders. -- Rick Atkinson
God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks. -- Clint Eastwood
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy. -- Andrew Weil
A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. -- Colin Powell
Advertising and content have always been bound together - in print, on television, and on the web. Sure, you can skip the ad - just flip the page, or press 'ffwd' on your DVR. But great advertising, as I've long argued, adds value to the content ecosystem, and has as much a right to be in the conversation as does the publisher and the consumer. -- John Battelle
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win. -- Vidal Sassoon
God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face. -- Jeaniene Frost
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
It's HE-RO," the boy argued."No," the girl insisted,"it's HER-O. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. -- Aristotle
With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures. -- Kirk Douglas
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -- Henny Youngman
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. -- Charles Durning
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. -- Taslima Nasrin
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. -- Will Self
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made. -- Alan Parker
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot. -- Chris Hayes
We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled. -- Chuck Klosterman
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.' -- Robert Zoellick
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. -- Thomas Huxley
It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree. -- Frank Woolley
How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent. -- Lawrence Fagg
But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand. -- Sarah Dessen
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. -- C. S. Lewis
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it. -- Stella Benson
The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") -- Gertrude Atherton
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. -- Edith Green
And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us? -- James M. Barrie
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. -- Richard Eyre
It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science. -- Samir Okasha
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. -- Chuck Klosterman
Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. -- Thomas J. Scheff
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. -- Alan Greenspan
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued. -- Jonathan Sacks
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. -- Charles Fried
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction." -- Jacques Derrida
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time. -- Rick Perlstein
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said -- C. S. Lewis
It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives. -- Gayle Forman
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued. -- Edward Albee
You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued. -- Obert Skye
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook. -- Alex Tabarrok
Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed. -- Bethany McLean
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees. -- Mario Puzo
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. -- Carl Bernstein
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible. -- Michael Coren
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. -- Abe Fortas
We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming. -- Dick Cheney
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work. -- Steven Levitt
Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband. -- Anthony Trollope
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -- Fred Brooks
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies. -- Alan Parker
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money. -- Gene Tierney
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. -- Dennis Prager
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. -- Salman Rushdie
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture. -- D. A. Carson
Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple. -- Gretl Braun
Some Westerners ["] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. -- Samuel P. Huntington
[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. -- Edward Said
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand... -- Lena Dunham
t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique. -- Kat Lahr
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. -- James Boswell
The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. -- Phillip Connors
I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror. -- Sam Harris
But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters. -- Bill Dedman
I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions. -- Marco Rubio
This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. -- Rod Parsley
Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. -- Thomas a Kempis
Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up. -- Charles Kennedy
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. -- Vernor Vinge
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. -- Vernor Vinge
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. -- Ivor Novello
Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a sensation produced by our very souls. -- John Gage
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything. -- Abraham Lincoln
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves. -- Robert L. Devaney
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received. -- Frank Carlucci
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. -- Loudon Wainwright III
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition. -- Paul Kurtz
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. -- Christopher Hitchens
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature. -- Ben Edwards
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- William Hazlitt
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it. -- Mary Hesse
In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future. -- Michael Gove
I will ensure we honour the instructions the British people have given us. I argued for specific changes in the referendum campaign, I believe in them, I will deliver them. -- Michael Gove
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at. -- Joshua Cohen
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. -- Eric Alterman
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one. -- Naomi Wolf
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. -- Juan Cole
Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating. -- Catherine Wilson
I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. -- Juan Cole
All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity. -- Raymond Chandler
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. -- Rudy Giuliani
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea. -- Neil Kinnock
Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force. -- Adolf Hitler

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