It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

Garry Winogrand

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

Elizabeth Montagu

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

John Quincy Adams

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present…

Thomas Jefferson

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

Dallin H. Oaks

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

Malachi Martin

There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though…

Alexander Hamilton

Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and…

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on…

Seth Green

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of…

Joseph Henry

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest…

Frances Wright

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

Matthew Arnold

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