Dispute Quotes

192 quotes by 176 authors

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come… — Saint Augustine
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud… — Ambrose Bierce
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? — Lara Flynn Boyle
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to… — James Buchanan
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. — Dalai Lama
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of… — Dinesh D'Souza
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not. — Chris Matthews
The dispute is still before the judge. — Horace
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may… — Eldridge Cleaver
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. — Epicurus
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the… — Orson Scott Card
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… — John Owen
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites… — William O. Douglas
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. — Alexander Pope

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