The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G.K. Chesterton
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale mak...
REGINA DOMAN Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
ROBERT QUILLEN Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance
ROBERT QUILLEN Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you ge...
ED SHEERAN I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
RAFAEL NADAL A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it,” said G. K. Chesterton...
ROD DREHER One point here is that it's very valuable for the staff to be involved in that discussion. When ther...
JIM FISCHER The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, ab...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Some folks hate to lose an argument even when the issue is not very important.
THEE AMAZING GRACE You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the t...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We weren't even worrying about that game. We were too busy worrying about Chesterton.
GREG HILL I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argume...
JULIA QUINN The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
FREDERICK THE GREAT The thing you hate most about yourself is the most interesting thing about you because it is worth h...
MARY PITTMAN [T]he most dishonest argument about security cameras, searches, profiling, etc....is that they won't...
JONAH GOLDBERG Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
QUENTIN BLAKE The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't ...
BARRY EISLER Ignorance always makes people create an argument and it is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in i...
VIKRANT PARSAI The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate...
JOHN MAJOR I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument....
JOHN MACKEY The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Those who hate something always comes accross that thing.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yi...
PAUL BRUNTON I hate it when people try to tell me that they are right by saying that I am young. So why don't you...
TARY C. Anna, Anna," Josh interrupts. "If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS I hate it. I hate losing. I always have, always will.
BEN JOHNSON (FOOTBALL PLAYER) What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about so...
BARRY SCHWARTZ A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...
STEPHEN LEACOCK We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the '...
DAVE DAVIES The thing I hate the most, is hate itself.
JOSHUA CLARKE Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
FRANCIS ATTERBURY An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn no...
EWAN MCGREGOR If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you h...
DAMIAN LEWIS The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people�...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programm...
LARRY NIVEN I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV The gospel is neither a discussion or a debate. It is an announcement.
PAUL S. REES In this country, Iraq was almost always about winning the argument.
GEORGE PACKER One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argumen...
MONICA CROWLEY It interrupts things . . . delays things a little bit, but I don't think we need to be overly concer...
TOM RENNEY I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeli...
TWYLA THARP I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if ...
DANA PERINO There is an argument that medical marijuana is a back door to (recreational) legalization, ... I don...
STEVE BLOOM The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
DESMOND TUTU The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the righ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the ri...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness
AMERICAN PROVERB I do think it is a future possibility but something we are still in discussion about.
JOSH ARMSTRONG I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they att...
MARGARET THATCHER Truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences of ...
RAM CHARAN It does help that Dermot is an actor. I hate having to care about that stuff. But I know it's legiti...
CATHERINE KEENER One thing I've noticed about him is he doesn't get into the social-political discussion of race. I s...
CHARLEY PRIDE I can see the argument that some clubs could make about some teams having an advantage in terms of t...
ALEXI LALAS They listen and it makes them feel that I am not here for an exercise in conversion or political dis...
DR. AHMED N. ELREFAI That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then deci...
BRIAN CLOUGH It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, ...
DAVID A. R. WHITE My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggre...
JACK REYNOR I have learned that, it is wise enough to retreat and accept defeat, rather than winning an argument...
NAS KIRIAKOS We have failed to present lower taxes in a broader economic context, preferring to make an ideologic...
DAVID JAMES His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - thi...
JOCHEN ZEITZ I've always had this thing where I can't stop. I hate standing still.
CHARLIE FINK The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
SHORT QUOTES The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?
RICHARD HUGO There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has a...
MARK KELLY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, an...
JOHN NASH I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, an...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, auto...
DONALD TRUMP Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL There should be greater national discussion about whether there is a need (for an international serv...
HISASHI HIEDA One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking a...
YOHAN BLAKE As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you...
IOAN GRUFFUDD The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
DALE CARNEGIE The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation
DALE CARNEGIE It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
WILLIAM GIBBS MCADOO I'm a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a cr...
AVA DUVERNAY The most toxic thing about this whole discussion is the impression that most of the public has, that...
EUGENIE SCOTT The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I hope the plans of the task force will be enacted in an improved way. This is just a baseline discu...
BARRY QUALLS I just checked with the union and was told that lawyers had sat down and had a discussion on it. The...
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G.K. CHESTERTON [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run...
G.K. CHESTERTON That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha...
G.K. CHESTERTON If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha...
G.K. CHESTERTON Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ...
G.K. CHESTERTON If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Sy...
G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed...
G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No...
G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ...
G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ...
G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode...
G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over.
"There is," sai...
G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c...
G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ...
G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha...
G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica...
G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu...
G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat...
G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G.K. CHESTERTON Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th...
G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things...
G.K. CHESTERTON The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ...
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