democracy is not simply order and rationality displayed in…

When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would…

— Herbert Spencer

The use of VAR as far as we're concerned has definitely been a bit contentious.

— Eddie Howe

...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer-…

— Will Schwalbe

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why…

— Frank Smith

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches…

— Alan Lewis

What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it was emotional; but, ultimately,…

— Barack Obama

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

— Sara Sheridan

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

— Jim DeMint

This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up…

— Anthony Burgess

You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes.…

— Salman Rushdie

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled…

— Saint Augustine

One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more…

— Michael Sucsy

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer