Quotes About Dispute

Nothing attracts a serious duel like an inconclusive one.

When the question is reduced to the simple expression of the struggle between poverty and wealth, the tendency of each side of the dispute becomes perfectly evident without further controversy.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

For Paul, the suit against Klein could not have been richer: Lennon and company were now arguing that their May 1969 contract with Klein—the contract they tried to strong-arm Paul into signing at Olympic Studios—should be considered invalid "because they did not understand the nature and effect of it."13 They argued, too, that an amendment to that contract should be rendered invalid on the same grounds, plus misrepresentation, by Klein, of its meaning.

Henry was right to observe that two players left Wings, and Paul hadn't asked why. But Paul hadn't asked why because he knew the answer. The dispute that led to McCullough's departure mirrored fights he'd had with Harrison over what to play and how to play it, as well as Lennon's complaint, in that painful Rolling Stone interview, about Paul treating them as sidemen. He was, once again, accused by his bandmates of being a control freak.

Litigation – A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

We can argue about it in hell.

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.

Het op eigen gezag beslechten van geschillen mocht dan in vroegere tijden gangbaar zijn, thans behoort het thuis bij de rechterlijke macht.

Wars and alarums unto nations wide.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

squabbles between the signatories of the Treaty of Misenum

No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails. — Gowachin Law

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Há homens que da simples contradita do adversário concluem pela incompetência dele.

No court would have awarded her the amounts he paid.

No, really. Are you a lawyer? Can I sue somebody in jail? You can. It wouldn't be worth much. Right. So are you listening? I can't sue my boyfriend, I gotta sue my landlord. Because your boyfriend threw you out the window? Because there weren't any screens on the window.

attempted to refute the charges of Dirck Coornhert (1522–90) against the Calvinist doctrine of predestination. After studying Romans 7 and 9, Hermanszoon modified his beliefs and affirmed that God predestined all who believe in Christ. As a professor of divinity at the University of Leiden (after 1603), Arminius engaged in a harsh dispute with fellow professor Francis Gomarus, a committed supralapsarian Calvinist and admirer of Calvin and Beza.

A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.