Argument Avoidance Quotes

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.

You don't hear much crosstalk on 'The Five.' When you try to make a point, the other person will back off.

Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

I don't want to get into some sort of back-and-forth on insults because that just drags everybody down.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—and that is to avoid it.

It's better not to argue with women.

There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'."

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

I never argue with people about movies.