Contentious Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree…
— Herbert Spencer
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This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a…
— Anthony Burgess
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But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious…
— David Hume
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On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the…
— Sun Tzu
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Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we…
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
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What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it was emotional; but, ultimately, they…
— Barack Obama
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Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin'…
— Mickey Rivers
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
— Zhuangzi
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What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent…
— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
— Francis Bacon
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Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding…
— Richard L. Evans
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...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she…
— Will Schwalbe
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Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun…
— Jon Stewart
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
— Edie Brickell
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My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my…
— Matt Damon
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I don't even like playing a contentious role.
— Jim DeMint
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The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking…
— William J. Clinton
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