Cogently Argued Quotes & Sayings

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. — Mara Brock Akil

Love is a two-way street, but not everyone deserves a license. — Carlos Wallace

Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us — Salvador Dali

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast? — Douglas Hofstadter

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at war don't have to be particularly rational or cogently argued when so few Americans are making the sacrifice that it takes to stay. — Rachel Maddow

My name is Mila, and this is my journey.
There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour's truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far from my home in Belarus. This is where I lost my innocence. This is where my dreams died. — Tess Gerritsen

It's not easy, either psychologically or practically, to keep tweaking the truth to make it all fit together. — Haruki Murakami

I think you glow more when you embarrassed. Maybe that's how you blush. — Kat Falls

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. — Bob Balaban

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right? — Sarah Dessen

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals. — Traylor Howard

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. — Virginia Woolf

Ink and paper were the only place where my voice didn't falter, didn't betray the real me. — Sarah Ockler

When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends. — Kellin Quinn

After his brother. He suddenly noticed that Ivan swayed — Fyodor Dostoyevsky