Verbal arguments should always be suspect.
– Lee Spetner
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- Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. – Robert Lane Greene
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least. – Jeffrey Tucker
- How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul? – AM Homes
- A disciple of Jesus Christ is a visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ at the expense of the ones and things that they hold dear. It’s that serious. – Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
- For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths-¦ – Roberto Bolao
- In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted. – Dada Bhagwan
- Silence free the mind from its verbal cage. – Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
- Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience. – Stewart Stafford
- To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why? – Frank Herbert
- …you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one’s verbal concatenation! – Gail Carriger
- A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it’s written on. – Samuel Goldwyn
- We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems. – William S Burroughs
- We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of -œjust kidding. – David W Earle
- All verbal spats have silent winners. – Talees Rizvi
- Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. – Coco J Ginger
- Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. – Shannon L Alder
- Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (-œJuicy rumours -œ) – Erik Pevernagie
- Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues. – Asa Don Brown
- Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction. – Adele Devine
- Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. – Steve Maraboli
- Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance. – Eugene H Peterson
- Authority-”when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats-”makes people shut down & productivity ceases. – John Stoker
- If he lacks verbal expression of it, you may find his love profoundly in his works, deeds and creativity; so recognize rather than criticize. – TF Hodge
- Each book which so far is written is filled with a new thoughts… new images… new arguments… new discussions. – Deyth Banger
- My religion starts from where your arguments end. – Kunal Narayan Uniyal
- The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments – Xiaobo Liu
- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
- It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. – Sigmund Freud
- Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments. – Himmilicious
- We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. – Samuel Butler
- What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments. – Fela Durotoye
- [I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments. – Lawrence Lessig
- The problem with arguments is that it never adds up to any value to the subject. – Aditya Ajmera
- I’ve had a few intense arguments with my boss who happens to be the object of my sexual fantasies. – JL McCoy
- Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see. – Os Guinness
- Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. – Robert G Ingersoll
- Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. – JK Rowling