I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Carmen Miranda
TimeAngerMeFeelWeddingArgument
Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.
Jason Isbell
SongYouArgumentSometimesRhetoric
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono
TruthArgumentCreateRevealMeant
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
GoodPeopleDesignArgumentDuty
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
TruthPoliticsArgumentAlways
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.
Chris Crutcher
ChildrenLanguageToleranceArgument
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
Rachel Maddow
StandHouseArgumentCongressKind
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
GreatSolutionDoubtDebateArgument
I used to be a wannabe Genghis Khan and will always be that. He never lost any battles. Then I swung to the other side of the spectrum and settled on Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now I realise I should identify myself with those who strengthen my argument.
Kamal Haasan
MyselfArgumentLostNowWillNever
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Aristophanes
BelieveYouArgumentProofYour
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
Calvin Klein
ArgumentKindDivineBeingDisease
The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field.
Alice Dreger
GoodSafetyArgumentSeemFansMay
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
Barry Eisler
YourselfSomeoneYouFindArgument
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
William Henry Moody
PowerArgumentRareEloquence
Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.
Sydney Pollack
TimePeopleArgumentLittleAnswer
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.
Peter L. Berger
ReligionMistakeThinkArgumentHand
When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.
Serena Williams
MyselfCrazyLookDownArgumentLot
As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?
Tim Kaine
MeMissionDebateArgumentMoral
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
Richard Attenborough
I AmBrainLongArgumentIgnorant
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
Mark Millar
MoneyCreativeTeamThinkArgument
I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.
Kyrsten Sinema
LifeFamilyArgumentPersonKind
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Kenneth R. Miller
DesignArgumentIntelligentTrial
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
WomenStrongArgumentPoorSingle
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Howard Nemerov
HopeArgumentFollowAlwaysSense
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