Pastoral Resources

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.