No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. – Marilyn Ferguson
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. – The Bible 2 Timothy 2:23-24
I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I’m flight. I just don’t want the argument. – Jennifer Saunders
I never misrepresent my position – you’ve got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case. – Louis Theroux
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution. – K. V. Thomas
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame
But, you know, there’s still an argument, there’s still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. – Liam Neeson
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. – Michel de Montaigne
I’d like to do policy and I’d like to do philosophy, I’d like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument – that’s the kind of stuff I want to do. – Jonathan Krohn
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. – James L. Buckley
We don’t argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes. – Leroy Hood
The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices. – Lisa Blatt
I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day. – Jessica Ennis-Hill
My argument is not that I shouldn’t have been punished, but that the punishment didn’t fit the crime. – Kevin Mitnick
When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it’s hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding. – Julian Fellowes
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we’ve tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state. – Leslie Moonves
I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it’s just kind of a hollow argument to say I’m not a family person. – Kyrsten Sinema
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it’s a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that’s his problem. – John Sayles
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. – Kim Stanley Robinson
There are 435 members of Congress. There’s one ‘Morning Joe’ show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil. – Joe Scarborough
There are clear cases in which ‘understanding’ literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument. – John Searle
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being. – Lysander Spooner
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. – Joichi Ito