Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some type of argument ensued. A gun was taken out, and these two people were shot.

The specific argument we were making is now moot.

Steve Squyres

The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an $850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.

That tends to be a common argument that is raised in capital cases, and we will continue to defend this case before the 6th Circuit.

This was a carryover argument between the two girls that started (Monday). There is evidence that (the shooter) thought this out.

This was a carryover argument between the two girls that started (Monday), ... There is evidence that (the shooter) thought this out.

What's discouraging is that they are now going to have to make an argument to Nassau people that they never thought they were going to have to make.

We had a little argument. We weren't on the same page. It was no big deal -- just a fight, and nobody got hurt.

Eliot Spitzer

These are very senior executives within the Marsh hierarchy, ... Not only was it wrong, it was harmful to the economy ... There is simply no responsible argument in favor of rigging bids, stifling competition and cheating.

The Russian argument is that it has the implication of leading to Chapter 7 actions.

There's no good argument for just ignoring them.

Is the manned Chinese program something to worry about? Not really. Nobody has really come up with a military argument about man in space, which is not the same thing to say about the Chinese space program as a whole, which has clear military implications.

Anthony Principi

I still don't buy their argument about savings.

Jim Cummings

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

Dave Freudenthal

I've been opposed to it from the beginning, ... The argument is that our gas tax is lower than our surrounding states, so I have a moral obligation to pay 5 cents more a gallon. When I'm watching that little meter spin around, I don't really feel all that morally obligated to pay more.

I'm not persuaded by the argument that a single price deters piracy, ... I'm not persuaded of the fact that a lower price deters piracy. What I am persuaded of is that making music more convenient and better value is a deterrent to piracy.

I'm not persuaded by the argument that a single price deters piracy,

I mean, we're in kind of a void period here as far as economic information and, clearly, you can make an argument on either side. So we'll have to wait and see.

It sounded like what started out as an argument escalated into something else.

Don't argue. In order to have a successful and long-term marriage, go into it with a give-and-take attitude. Without reservation, I can say we have never had a real argument of any kind.

Lord Hailsham

The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

The better argument for the result reached in Roe v. Wade is that it's necessary for the equality of women, rather than grounding it in the privacy right, ... Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court.

Robert Pinsky

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.

The baby Triceratops confirmed our argument that the horns and frill of the skull likely had another function other than sexual display or competition with rivals, which people have often argued, and allows us to propose they were just as important for species recognition and visual communication in these animals.

The attorney general's refutation of the legal argument made by the White House ... speaks volumes about the far-fetched nature of the White House's submission,

Take your body weight, put it on a rack and power clean it 74 consecutive times, and that's a good argument for moving to the outside (hitter position). He did that. That's an endurance feat, of course, but it also takes a little strength, too.

A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke. - (Deep Thoughts) Saturday Night Live

It's really the Fed at this point that's kept the market in check. The historic conversation between the Fed and the markets has become a bit of an argument over whether there's really inflation, and whether we need those rate hikes.

Any argument that he comes up with that we are not dedicating the resources needed for our military men and women is just talk, pure rhetoric.

Edward Tufte

It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.

I'm sure the argument will be why are we nit-picking, but what I want to do at a minimum in the debate is lay out what I understand what the president's committing to do,