#argument

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#back #bad #because #boy #characters

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#almost #analyze #any #argument #statistics

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#bad #both #capital #capital punishment #good

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

#civil #congress #debates #disagree #hammering

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat. ↗

— Grace Slick

#argument #beings #built #eat #hard

I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#argument #both #britain #europe #fantastic

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#economics #industry #most #most powerful #number

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#argument #ever #everybody #family #first

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#argument #chill #feeling #heated #logic