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.

- Eric Liu

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

- Jake Barton

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

- Julian Casablancas

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

- Jon Meacham

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

- John Mackey

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

- Johnny Carson

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

- James Joyce

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

- Herbert A. Simon

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

- Frank Robinson

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

- Ezra Koenig

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

- Emanuel Ax

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

- Darin Strauss

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.

- Donald Trump

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

- David Suzuki

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

- Clay Shirky

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.

- Chuck Palahniuk

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

- Brene Brown

I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it.

- Alex Berenson

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

- Angelina Jolie