Rick Yancey Quotes

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not.

Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

I'm impervious to logic.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev)

And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not." Fang rolled his eyes.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.