Quotes by Argument The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. Frank Herbert argumentthrivepurpose I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence. F. Scott Fitzgerald argumenttryinggiving Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use? Franny Billingsley argumentusefather I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not. Franny Armstrong argumentrolesaction He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument. Fred Allen argumentangeruse Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text. Fred D'Aguiar argumentemotionalunderstanding Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value? Frederick Carl Frieseke argumentlife-ispeople At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Frederick Douglass ironyargumentneeded In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka argumentsonglove Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case. Gabriel Iglesias argumentproblemdirty One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. Friedrich Nietzsche argumenttoneopinion Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times. Gay Hendricks argumentcouplerelationship Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. Gay Hendricks argumentbeginning-middle-and-endends The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty. Gene Weingarten death-penaltyargumentpeople All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things. George Berkeley argumentignorantreal ...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found. George Gaylord Simpson argumentabsencefacts You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. George Eliot commandargumentstrong A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. Georg C. Lichtenberg argumentoppressionsoldier No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic. George Henry Lewes argumentjudgmentlogic If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. George Henry Lewes heightargumentspeak«4567891011121314»
