Contention Quotes

145 Contention quotes by 123 unique authors

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. — Lawana Blackwell
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in… — James Nayler
Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described… — Christopher Lasch
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those… — Joseph Henry
There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about. — Jack Nicklaus
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions — Edward Coke
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment… — Unknown Author
This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people… — Ben Crenshaw
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago… — Joel Salatin
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even… — Nel Noddings
Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed… — Gerrard Winstanley
My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either… — Unknown Author
When filled with God's love, we can do and see and understand things that we could not otherwise do or see or understand. Filled with… — John H. Groberg
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy. — Viktor E. Frankl
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented… — Stephen Reinhardt
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. — Abraham Lincoln
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. — Paul Winchell
Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is… — Ezra Taft Benson
It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would… — George F. Richards
The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those… — Morihei Ueshiba
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war… — Morihei Ueshiba
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. — Joyce Appleby
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. — Rick Moody

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