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Quotes About Dispute

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.
~ Pierre Omidyar
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
~ Diego Maradona
Dre is one of those guys that doesn't mind fighting at the drop of a hat.
~ The D.O.C.
I hate consensus. I like confrontation.
~ Geert Wilders
I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.
~ Tim Cook
I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
~ Chet Huntley
My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'
~ Max Baucus
before serious Anglo-Scottish political differences began, there was a north-south dispute over the manner in which priestly heads should be shaved.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
~ George Orwell
As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.
~ George Orwell
When the dispute over the Means Test was in progress there was a disgusting public wrangle about the minimum weekly sum on which a human being could keep alive.
~ George Orwell
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. George Washington, Revolutionary War General and U.S. President
~ George Washington
An acrimonious dispute between Leslie and Buckingham caused the King to remark to the Lord Talbot somewhat bitterly that although he could not get Leslie's horse to stand by him against the enemy, it seemed that he could not get rid of them now, when he had a mind to it.
~ Georgette Heyer
Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.
~ Tom Perez
I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.
~ Margaret Mahy
The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.
~ Mike Ingham
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
~ Mark Twain
I said nothing of the sort.
~ Mark Twain
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.
~ Mark Twain
A Brazilian, talking to one of the R.A.F. men, said that he could not understand two major nations fighting over the tiny Falklands; it was, said the Brazilian, 'like two bald men fighting over a comb'.
~ Martin Middlebrook
There was an office called the champion of England, which entailed none but ceremonial duties. The champion was to enter Westminster Hall on horseback, armed cap-a-pie, to challenge anyone disputing the king's rights and to throw down a glove for any challenger to pick up. Three horsemen who represented the
~ Arthur H. Cash
The only certain rule is the one that Aristotle already gave: do not dispute with anyone and everyone, but only with those people you know who are intelligent enough to avoid saying things that are so stupid as to expose themselves to humiliation, who appreciate the truth, and who gladly listen to good reasons, even when the opponent claims them, and who are balanced enough to bear a defeat when the truth is on the other side.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
je?eli dysputujÄ… dwie pospolite gÅ'owy, okazuje siÄ™, ?e or??em wybranym przez nie sÄ… autorytety; bijÄ… siÄ™ wspólnie autorytetami
~ Arthur Schopenhauer