All Quotes By Tag: Arguments
“Your jagged edges always surrender to the soft lines in the face of my poetry.”
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“Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she’d distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought she herself was responsible for it. Just before everyone had arrived, she’d told Peter about her adventure with Gamache. Animated and excited she’d gabbled on about her box and the woods and the exhilarating climb up the ladder to the blind. But her wall of words hid from her a growing quietude. She failed to notice his silence, his distance, until it was too late and he’d retreated all the way to his icy island. She hated that place. From it he stood and stared, judged, and lobbed shards of sarcasm.’You and your hero solve Jane’s death?”I thought you’d be pleased,’ she half lied. She actually hadn’t thought at all, and if she had, she probably could have predicted his reaction. But since he was comfortably on his Inuk island, she’d retreat to hers, equipped with righteous indignation and warmed by moral certitude. She threw great logs of ‘I’m right, you’re an unfeeling bastard’ onto the fire and felt secure and comforted.”
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“This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can’t stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.”
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“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
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“Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.”
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“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”
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“If you can’t impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”
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“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”
“If there is no disparity of opinions there is nothing of value being discussed”
“It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort…only to find a big bear hug coming his way.”
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“It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”
“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one’s enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.”
“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”
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“If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.”
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