Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mo Mowlam

There was no metaphorical gun at my head, ... Putting my case face-to-face, arguing it through with them, I thought was the best way to do it.

Henning Mankell

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Jennifer Garner

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

Jeffrey Kluger

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

Gilbert Gottfried

If someone says that I'm the best at anything, I always just agree with them. I'm certainly not gonna argue.

John Hewson

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

That's why it is so frustrating. This injury is obviously a setback to me, I would have a hard time arguing that, but right now I feel like (the competition with Murray is) wide open.

Darin Strauss

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

What really triumphed here were the pressures exerted by our government, which asked that Pinochet return, arguing he could be tried in Chile.

John Jay

What option do I have. It's logical if the clock started on the touch. We were arguing over 0.1 or 0.2. There's nothing there.

The Vikings and I are in full support of all three stadiums. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. We are not arguing one over the other. We never did.

Richard Stengel

You hear the justices talking, you hear the lawyers arguing before the court. It's really interesting.

There's no point in arguing when peak oil will happen. It could be next year, it could be 2015. That decade is here,

(Israelis) have been arguing with us for four months over the security of the settlers. Now it is clear who is in danger.

Jose Ramirez

I've checked with every one of my security guys and no one saw him arguing with anyone.

Ron Gardenhire

Their pitcher was aware. Wood did a great job there. Most pitchers would catch the ball and start arguing with the umpire. He was very aware. He turned around looked home. He did a great job on that play.

Al Thornton

It's not just the coaches who are holding the players accountable. The players, we're holding each other accountable, too. That's a big difference as opposed to last year. We'd be arguing and there would be a lot of negativity. Who was getting the shots? Who was getting the minutes? Now, we're just together and it doesn't really matter who scores the points.

Not arguing about what's in the best interests of children is essentially conceding the case.

There's a huge redistribution away from workers to people who use immigrants. ... That's what people are arguing about.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

In fact, on May 12, 2005, the department had filed a brief arguing that the $130 billion smoking-cessation program was indeed forward-looking and would prevent and restrain future wrongful conduct by the tobacco industry,

I had enough of both of those men arguing and shouting each other down. Everyone else present had enough as well. But the next thing you know, Tony throws a red turtle shell at Jon and hit him hard in the head.

Ha-Joon Chang

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

Joseph Joubert

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Evelyn Waugh

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Gary Bauer

I'm confused here. I can't tell whether Judge Hecht is arguing that she is going to overturn Roe or she's not going to overturn Roe . If he wants to reassure his fellow pro-life conservatives, that's the last argument he should be making, the argument that he just made.

He stayed on me all week. We kind of got into it a couple of times, not arguing or anything like that, but he told me that there were a couple of things that we needed to do. I did them today and I hope that will carry over.

How bad does it have to get before people stop arguing and backstabbing?

How bad does it have to get before people stop arguing and backstabbing?

I don't know if Fox is arguing that its viewers are less sophisticated than those who would buy Mr. Franken's book, ... But either way, I think we are talking about relatively sophisticated consumers here.

Dan Campbell

I didn't see it as clearly as my assistant coach did, but he's got very good judgment, and when he was arguing about it, I knew we had something there. But (the umpires) said they didn't see it, so that's the way it goes.

Curtis Granderson

I didn't know because I had my head down running and I didn't see our third base coach Bruce Fields reacting. I thought it either bounced in or was foul but I saw them arguing so I thought I better go touch home plate before they call me out for going to the dugout.

Scott McNealy

They were arguing about this 500 years ago, they will be arguing about it 500 years from now.