Quotes About Dispute

I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.

It was no use beginning to dispute with such indulged, unreasoning creatures: so I held my peace. I was accustomed, now, to keeping silence when things distasteful to my ear were uttered; and now, too, I was used to wearing a placid smiling countenance when my heart was bitter within me.

She was keeping out of the quarrel.

People who speak with contempt for one another will probably not remain united for long. The most alarming rhetoric comes out of the dispute between liberals and conservatives, and it's a dangerous waste of time because they're both right.

For better or worse, civil litigation is generally driven by economics. If somebody thinks they've been wronged, they go to court and ask for money.

Look, I don't care what the Ooga-Boogas do. It sounds like they need a family counselor, not a sniper. (Steele) They're not Ooga-Boogas, they're Uhbukistanis. (Syd) Whatever. My personal belief is that we should leave Ooga-Booga Land to the Oomp-Loompas. Let them fight it out with the Snozzwangers, Wangdoogles, and the mean Vermicious Knids. I'd rather go peal carrots with a spoon. (Steele)

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

Where there is no property, there is no injury

Jake Berry, a reporter with the Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire), concluded after a 2013 interview with gun control researchers: "On the whole, Lott's colleagues—both in the media and academia—don't dispute his findings [on gun-free zones].

The two anonymously published epistolary novels Appearance is against Them (1786) and Emily Herbert: or, Perfidy Punished (1786) were later ascribed to the hand of Elizabeth Inchbald, though there is much dispute now whether she actually wrote them.

Anyone who goes to law puts himself in the hands of an unscrupulous ring of bandits and thugs who milk both parties as hard as they can until one of them has to pay. If one allows for the stupidity and prejudice of judges, conceit and idleness of barristers, and diffuseness of English law, neither side can have a more certain chance of winning a legal action than on a tossed coin, which is a much cheaper way of settling things.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.

But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It's well known there's always two sides, if no more; else who'd go to law, I should like to know?

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

Yes, Leander locked me out. I'd gone with my child for a birthday party. Leander and his mother were running out of the building as I was entering. They even put my clothes in boxes and threw them out.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

He could distinguish and divideA hair 'twixt south and southwest side,On either which he would dispute,Confute, change hands, and still confute.