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Quotes About Disagreement

A right includes the freedom to use it in ways others find distressing or even wrong.
~ Katha Pollitt
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The one real fight they'd ever had was over David Foster Wallace.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Ben Harrison is a dick-faced troll!
~ Garth Stein
In a mixed egalitarian/complimentarian marriage, both the husband and wife will likely treat each other according to their perceived sense of marital duties, but those duties won't be received as such. They'll be resented....people who disagree on this issue can still worship the same God, but it will be difficult for them to raise the same kids or operate the same household.
~ Gary L. Thomas
First we guess it. Then we – now don't laugh, that's really true – then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what, if this is right, if this law that we guessed is right, to see what it would imply. And then we compare the computation results to nature, or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
~ Brian Cox
We can't stop people from fighting any more than we can force them to agree. People will always disagree. Over politics, religio, land. They will always fight. And when the fights come our way, we will protect the innocent and try to find a more... peaceful resolution, it's our nature. But put one fire out, another one starts.
~ Brian Michael Bendis
Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause
~ Brigitte Gabriel
It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.
~ Brittney Ryan
Christians need a new filling of the Holy Spirit to love those who disagree with them. And the greatest expression of love is to share with them the most precious thing a Christian has, which is the good news of the salvation of Jesus Christ.
~ Brother Andrew
Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.
~ Bryant McGill
Oaths, blasphemies, and one recurring four-letter word filled the air like fog.
~ Herman Wouk
One may code for wrinkles, while the other holds the blueprint for smooth. As long as they stay together, only the stronger of each pair rules. Eukaryotes took advantage of this disagreement between twins. Prokaryotes had xeroxed chromosomes in their entirety. But eukaryotes unzipped their chromosomal ribbons lengthwise, ever-so gently separating each genetic pair. This yielded two skinny juliennes,‡ each with slightly different properties.
~ Howard Bloom
Christians can help people receive the message of reconciliation to God by modeling reconciliation among themselves. John 13:35 says, "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another." How well do we show love when we disagree? Nonbelievers look on and wonder if they can trust Christians to deal gently and respectfully with their questions and doubts if we don't treat each other that way.
~ Hugh Ross
Their only common ground is their disdain for the present, or the status quo.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It just more or less burns em, that's all. They hate anything that's not right for their way of living.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
~ Ian Mcewan
These were the months that shaped us.behind all our frustrations over all these years has been the wish to get back to those happy days.Once we began to see the world differently we could feel time running out on us and we were impatient with each other.Every disagreement was an interruption of what we knew was possible-and soon there was only interruption.And in the end time did run out,but memories are still there,accusing us,and we still can't let each other alone.
~ Ian Mcewan
He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat . I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem.
~ Ian Mcewan
Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.
~ Ian Mcewan
Do you have a girlfriend?" Grandma Frida asked. I put my hand over my face. "No," Mad Rogan said. "A boyfriend?" Grandma Frida asked. "No." "What about . . ." "No," Mom and I said in unison. "But you don't even know what I wanted to ask!" "No," we said again together. "Party poopers." Grandma shrugged.
~ Ilona Andrews
Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. Screw you! Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way. Whatever!
~ Ilona Andrews
I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.
~ John Paul Stevens
Even though I don't agree with Donald Trump on everything, and I think there may be certain things or statements of his that I may disagree with, he is a better candidate by far than Hillary Clinton.
~ Lee Zeldin