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Quotes About Dispute

When civil fury first grew high,And men fell out they knew not why.
~ Samuel Butler
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite but they all worship money.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
~ Ace Frehley
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork! Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish. Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t know what hit you! Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz, I'm a lawyer. I have not threatened you.
~ Mario Puzo
There was very little in the dispute which seemed to be worthy of the place in which it occurred, or of the vigour with which it was conducted; but it served to show the temper of the parties, and to express the bitterness of the political feelings of the day. It was said at the time, that never within the memory of living politicians had so violent an animosity displayed itself in the House as had been witnessed on this night
~ Anthony Trollope
Then there came on that well-worn dispute among sportsmen, whether foxes and pheasants are or are not pleasant companions to each other. Every one was agreed that, if not, then the pheasants should suffer, and that any country gentleman who allowed his gamekeeper to entrench on the privileges of foxes in order that pheasants might be more abundant, was a brute and a beast, and altogether unworthy to live in England.
~ Anthony Trollope
Britons have but to read, to obey, and be blessed. None but the fools doubt the wisdom of The Jupiter; none but the mad dispute its facts.
~ Anthony Trollope
For example, the ambiguities in a contract will be construed against the party that drafted the document (contra proferentem).
~ Antonin Scalia
The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature.
~ Aristotle,
no era aquel un momento para dimes y diretes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.
~ Simon Blackburn
It was a dispute of such gravity—linguists and philologists were known to be mercurial and hold eternal grudges—that
~ Simon Winchester
You can't switch sides! I glare at him in fury. I was never on your side, retorts Lorcan. Your side is the nutty side.
~ Sophie Kinsella
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
~ Helen McCloy
For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
~ R. Alistair
Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
~ John Milton
Oh billions of dollars — is there no dispute you can't settle?
~ John Stewart
deep-seated hatred between the cattlemen and the settler."40 This should come as no shock; the only surprise is that the big cattlemen would sometimes deny their attitude toward settlers. A settler who exercised his perfect right to 160 acres along a stream could significantly impair a big cowman's range; if several did so, the range would be lost altogether, as happened, for example, along Shell Creek in the Big Horn Basin.
~ John W. Davis
Warren hissed
~ John Walker
Edith's was a campaign waged with such cleverness and skill that he could find no rational grounds for complaint.
~ John Williams
To plunge into passionate dispute over the trivialities of so-called honor is a queerer but not uncommon gambit of men who have just come from putting their lives at stake in serious combat,
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Bah! there's always a war. What else?
~ baum l frank ii