Contested Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly…
— John Stuart Mill
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be…
— Sun Tzu
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the…
— Ross Garnaut
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On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too…
— Emanuel Lasker
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The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my back and joyous…
— Eve Langley
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested…
— Walt Whitman
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How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a…
— Ernest Bramah
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The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer,…
— Milton R. Hunter
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Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track…
— Byron York
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Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections.…
— Byron York
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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be…
— Helen Garner
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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine…
— Molly Ivins
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
— Sarah Palin
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The Internet is a politically contested space.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Men are vile, violent and without self-control. It cannot be contested.
— Krista The Femitheist
Who Wrote These Contested Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Contested Quotes as follows: