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Quotes About Disagreement

You manage to disentangle yourself, but then you're out in the hard, cold universe, and suddenly everybody is disagreeing with you-and you have no idea how to manage disagreement and how awful it makes you feel, having never experienced it at all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We've walked into a lover's quarrel, gentlemen.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Cristokos had only scorn of service, and for those served, pity. But service was Kasmir's purpose, even when that service was best met through disagreement and argument. His service , however, had always been a chosen one. Cristakos's had been plundered.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family's welfare than the making of a cake for tea. On this point her family entirely disagreed with her.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Because two people can't have entirely different opinions without one of them being final.
~ Elizabeth Strout
She called Christopher. "He's a Republican," she said. "Well, that's gross," Christopher answered.
~ Elizabeth Strout
If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.
~ Arthur H. Motley
Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out.
~ Assata Shakur
A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
~ Assyrian Proverb
Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern
~ Athol Dickson
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
~ Author Unknown
There are sincere and reputable people on both sides. They disagree, but their disagreement has not undone Christianity. And neither side is blowing anyone else up over it. Week in and week out, rabbis, ministers, and priests do not stand before their congregations, preaching about the world to come and exhorting them to seek martyrdom as a fast track to heaven.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As the commission tartly noted, no two religious divines could agree on the definition of a Muslim. If the members of the commission tried imposing a definition of their own, the ulema would unanimously declare them to have gone outside the pale of Islam. Adopting the definition of any one religious scholar entailed becoming an infidel in the eyes of all the others.
~ Ayesha Jalal
Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
~ Walter Cronkite
There's no facade; it's very real. I just don't get along with Ronda, and we don't see eye to eye on anything. We're just two completely different people. People can tell that our rivalry is very raw. It's very, very real.
~ Miesha Tate
I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
~ Irvine Welsh
People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.
~ Chadwick Boseman
I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass, they were convinced I'd fail.
~ David Olusoga
Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.
~ Shelley Berman
Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas.
~ Joy Reid
The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.
~ Art Bell
He dreams of buying a new car, but she flatly says, "We can't afford it.
~ Gary Chapman
I'd sooner cut off my hand and shove flowers in the stump than use this miserable excuse for pottery, but my friend is deranged enough to think otherwise.
~ Gene Doucette