Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the…

“It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“When you understand that the perceiver and the thing perceived are in relation, and that the higher vision will always lift in field what…

— Paul Selig

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

— William Cowper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler