Contention Quote by William Cowper

“It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“When you understand that the perceiver and the thing perceived are in relation, and that the higher vision will always lift in field what…

— Paul Selig

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

— William Cowper

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on…

— Seth Green

Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though…

— Alexander Hamilton

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

— Malachi Martin

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

— Dallin H. Oaks

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present…

— Thomas Jefferson

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

— Garry Winogrand