Best Conflicting Sayings
131 Conflicting quotes by 121 unique authors
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Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his…
— Rex Stout
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of…
— Victor Hugo
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Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.
— Eero Saarinen
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Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules,…
— Billy Graham
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In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would…
— Peter Senge
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On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.
— Noam Chomsky
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Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every…
— Bertrand Russell
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If your struggle with the conflicting parts of yourself is conscious, you are able to choose consciously the response that will create the karma that…
— Gary Zukav
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I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't…
— Rita Dove
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It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to…
— Bruce Davison
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
— Learned Hand
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Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
— Charles Lindbergh
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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising…
— Gore Vidal
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In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as…
— Arundhati Roy
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A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas…
— Lee Strobel
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I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
— Merritt Wever
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Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other.…
— Evan Davis
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more…
— John Grierson
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small…
— Caroline Knapp
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I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested…
— Vinod Khosla
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Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.
— James Fitzjames Stephen
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Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite.…
— Pierre Alechinsky
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Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the…
— Gifford Pinchot
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