"I don't even like playing a contentious role." — Jim DeMint

More Contentious Quotes

This quote is filed under Contentious Quotes, one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer… — Thomas Carlyle
• When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,… — Herbert Spencer
• This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity,… — Anthony Burgess
• But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question… — David Hume
• On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do… — Sun Tzu
• Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
• What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it… — Barack Obama
• Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing… — Mickey Rivers
• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. — Zhuangzi
• What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely… — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
• Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. — Francis Bacon

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