No one is arguing that the entire Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 2 is the most important part of the act. It gives people the right to challenge discriminatory laws in court. It applies to the entire nation. It is constitutional, and it will continue to protect all Americans.
I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.
I’ll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.
To a lot of us, literature’s eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing – like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I’ve thrown teacups then we’ve gone through some crockery in this place. It’s completely exaggerated, but I don’t like people arguing back with me.
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
I am not arguing that women ought to ‘settle.’ I am arguing that we can now expect more of a mate than we could when we depended on men for our financial security, social status, and sense of accomplishment.
When you’re arguing with a fool, you’re the fool for even going back and forth.
I mean, there’s no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. ‘You’re fired’ is a very strong term.
I’m not going to grouse and complain when there’s nothing I can do about it. Once you’ve broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.
I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching ‘Breaking Bad.’
My mom has gone out of her way in her personal life. She’s been with me on the road. She’s had to deal with people giving her the ‘that’s the mom’ and arguing. Just little things as a businesswoman.
Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.
There’s a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.
I hate reality shows. It’s funny because me and my wife be arguing all the time about reality shows ’cause she loves reality shows and watches them all day, all the time. And I be like, ‘C’mon. No. No.’
I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, ‘You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.’
Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
I was born to argue… I don’t know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I’ve mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
I was born to argue… I don’t know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I’ve mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
Doesn’t matter if I’m right or wrong – if I’m hungry or hot, I’m probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.
Arguing is fun when you think you have all the answers.
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation’s economy and not an exploitative one.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
I am not arguing with you – I am telling you.
I don’t mind arguing with myself. It’s when I lose that it bothers me.
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.
There seems to me to be something admirable, indeed noble, about the people arguing over Richard III. They’re doers rather than naysayers, romantics rather than realists, people looking for meaning rather than numbness.
Pianists don’t argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
I’m not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It’s no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
I was the first businessman to say, ‘You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.’ I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
I’m used to fighting and arguing with males.
The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I’m very lazy. I’m intelligent, but I’m very lazy, so it seemed like a bit too much.
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
I love that ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that’s something that I don’t get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn’t really happen that much on ‘The Office.’ I just like that ‘Moonlighting,’ Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
I don’t mind arguing back and forth with people who have actual information.
Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other.
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
We need to stop arguing about things that don’t help Argentina grow.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
Arguing that God doesn’t exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn’t exist because they couldn’t see them.
If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don’t have to take it, you don’t have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you’re not comfortable with it, just go.
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
