Contentious Quote by David Hume

When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would…

— Herbert Spencer

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

— Chuck Palahniuk

One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more…

— Michael Sucsy

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled…

— Saint Augustine

You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes.…

— Salman Rushdie

This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up…

— Anthony Burgess

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

— Jim DeMint

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

— Sara Sheridan

What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it was emotional; but, ultimately,…

— Barack Obama

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches…

— Alan Lewis

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why…

— Frank Smith

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on…

— Dallin H. Oaks