I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway. ' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.
There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.
Without agreement you just have people arguing.
You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.
I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.
Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave
Arguing with a man doesn't work.
I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. Nobody needs to justify why they 'need' a right. The burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. You can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority.
Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.
I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)
I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.
Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.