Quotes About Contentious

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

Politics has become absurdly, stupidly, restrictively partisan.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

No Man Knows My History, her magnificent, contentious biography of Joseph

You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.

For Muslims, Jesus is seen as the messianic prophet they have claimed him to be. Islamic portraits of Jesus are said to parallel Q, James, and the Didache. Thus, we have a Jesus dynasty offered to a world in need of a less contentious religious history and engagement. Once again we have Jesusanity, not Christianity.

A Supreme Court ruling is supposed to provide clarity to contentious legal issues, but in the case of reproductive rights, it was just the beginning of a long, heated, and grueling debate.

The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

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

Realize that such comments are to be expected from academics. We are a pathetically contentious lot. We want others not only to be aware of our work but to admire it and, better still, to defer to the conclusions we have drawn. The problem is that our colleagues seek the same admiration and deference from us. Something has to give, and as a result, on campuses everywhere, academics routinely engage in verbal fisticuffs. Put-downs are commonplace, and insults fly.

Dissanayake writes that art that engages the mind and hands, that is not just passive connoisseurship, can act as an antidote, for our contentious and alienated relationship to our own societies.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

He could start a row in an empty house.

shawn is a bitch

If you want to be contentious wait until you learn what you have to contend with. It works better that way.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

However, blackness, no less than whiteness, has been and continues to be a socially constructed and therefore highly contentious racial description.

Good art should be polarizing.

We've always been a polarizing band.

We think it's important to do something that's polarizing.

I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.

It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it'll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.