Controversy Quotes · Page 6

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

— Joanne Harris

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

— George Harrison

Let them have their opinions. But don't let them have our world.

— Sophie Lianne

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

— James K. Polk

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

— Peter Gabriel

You cannot avoid controversy in this day and age - you really only can pick sides.

— Sam Seder

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

— Joe Arpaio

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.

— Tim Tebow

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on…

— Otto Preminger

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the…

— Jane Fonda

Like 'Ken Park's' director, Larry Clark, Germaine Greer deliberately provokes controversy with the cheapest trick.

— Miranda Devine

“People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he's creating new ones.…

— Chuck Todd

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other,…

— George Mason

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

— Ray Davies

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his…

— H. L. Mencken

Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for…

— Hillary Clinton

If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I don't want to get embroiled in any controversy. At the same time, I want to take part in those conversations that…

— Mammootty

I think that our president should not be representing our country. He has alienated our allies. He continues to lie day in…

— Maxine Waters

Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the…

— Hazel Henderson

To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call…

— Ishmael Reed

We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend…

— Dick Cheney

Two years ago, China tested an anti-satellite weapon that actually caused quite a bit of controversy and one of the controversies is…

— Leroy Chiao

“A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial . One is, don’t repeat yourself…

— Lewis Carroll

He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he…

— Tertullian

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its…

— William Borah

When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about…

— Sacha Gervasi

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the…

— Rudolf Virchow

I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end…

— Bruno Latour

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

— Tracy Morgan

People like controversy because that's what sells.

— Miley Cyrus

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

— Joseph Joubert

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“If you think marketing is expensive, you’re doing it wrong”

— Stacey Kehoe

If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci.

— Zaytoven

I am an innocent man, but I don't want to indulge in any controversy.

— Abdul Qadeer Khan

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

— Usain Bolt