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Quotes About Dispute

There is no man, and no place, without war.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But, of course, the 7th Fleet has been a presence in the region since the Second World War, and it is the most powerful fleet in the region.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.
~ Andy Kindler
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
~ Cornelius Vanderbilt
Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too!
~ James Belushi
I'm getting too much money to be fighting people.
~ Mustard
Así que, por cierto es ya una falta en vosotros que tengáis pleitos entre vosotros mismos. ¿Por qué no sufrís más bien el agravio? ¿Por qué no sufrís más bien el ser defraudados?" (1 de Corintios 6:7 RV1960).
~ Sergio Franco
Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without a judge's approval or has been approved. But if it is without approval, whence comes it that it is truthworthy? For no matter of dispute is to be trusted without judging. And, if it has been approved, that which approves it, in turn, either has been approved or has not been approved, and so on ad infinitum.
~ Sextus Empiricus
The dispute, [Suzanne Kappeler] writes, is not about whether certain literary works degrade women but whether there is anything wrong with the systematic degradation of women, the wholesale cultural objectification of women.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said "went far toward confirming one's belief in the wealth and flexibility of the English language as a medium of personal dispute.
~ Shelby Foote
Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.
~ Quentin Crisp
Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.
~ Richard Branson
When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
~ Rita Moreno
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.
~ Mark Twain
Go now, he said harshly, before I forget that there can never be anything but enmity between you and me.
~ Mary Balogh
Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.
~ Mary Doria Russell
I like the term decedent. It's as though the man weren't dead but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute.
~ Mary Roach
They were not fighting over what to do, but over whom to blame.
~ Ayn Rand
It's not just that there are two sides to every dispute. It's that each side sincerely believes its version of the story, namely that it is an innocent and long-suffering victim and the other side a malevolent and treacherous sadist.
~ Steven Pinker
where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
~ William Shakespeare
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
~ Edmund Waller
Man to man, my eye Kipps snorted. It was like seeing two schoolgirls squabbling over a scented pencil. You should have heard the squeals.
~ Jonathon Stroud
He suggested that his readers conduct a short experiment when they next found themselves in a dispute: "Stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: 'Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
When you next find yourself in a dispute: stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately and to that speaker's satisfaction.
~ Jordan B. Peterson