Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.
Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.
No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
If you argue against reality you will suffer.
Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.
In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.
I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.
