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Quotes About Dispute

A good lawyer, an evil neighbour.
~ Proverb
The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.
~ Proverb
But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
~ R. E. Phillips
I don't believe it's appropriate for me or any other CEO to wade into every political dispute. That's not what we're here for.
~ Kenneth Frazier
Los mayores y los chicos siempre pelean porque son de razas distintas
~ Ray Bradbury
E piciorul meu. - Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer. Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.
~ Joseph Heller
For three years, there was a dispute between the School of Shammai and the School of Hillel, the former asserting, "The law (halakhah) is according to our view," and the latter asserting, "The law is according to our view." Then, a voice issued from heaven announcing, "Both these and these are the words of the living God, but the law is in agreement with the School of Hillel.
~ Joseph Telushkin
In any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue. That is why academic politics are so bitter.
~ Wallace Stanley Sayre
People of faith can read the Bible so that almost any perspective on a current issue will find some support in the Bible. That rich and multivoiced offering in the Bible is what makes appeals to it so tempting—and yet so tricky and hazardous, because much of our reading of the Bible turns out to be an echo of what we thought anyway. THE ISSUE OF LAND The dispute between Palestinians and Israelis is elementally about land and secondarily about security and human rights.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
~ Wayne Coyne
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.
~ James Bovard
And thus, the Fairy leading, they came at last to a tall hedge wherein were a hundred wickets, all being closed; and those who had passed the Foolish Prince disputed before the hedge and measured the hundred wickets with thirty-nine articles and with a variety of instruments, and each man entered at his chosen wicket, and a butterfly went before him; but no man returned into the open country.
~ James Branch Cabell
Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument.
~ James Frederick Green
People have used these books for centuries. Their accuracy is beyond dispute." "Well, I have as much respect for ancient learning as you do, but I don't know that I'd want to stake my life on some home remedy from the Middle Ages." "Well, I suppose I can check it somewhere else," he said, without much conviction.
~ Donna Tartt
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
The tale must be rehearsed–and we may amuse ourselves imagining how these must have been, often, acrimonious, or at least in dispute. Whose version of events is going to be committed to memory by the Memories?
~ Doris Lessing
I've been in Scotland more lately than any of you. I tell you, there are twenty sides in that fight, never mind two, and when they get tired throwing things at each other, they'll all turn and stamp on the mediator.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
But on the final evening of Amanda's interrogation, she was interrogated all night. Not by just one or two detectives, but by adozen—twelve—detectives. Again, the police not only do not dispute this; they have entered this evidence into court.
~ Douglas Preston
I think you're both behaving like a pair of idiots.
~ Agatha Christie
There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.
~ Scott Turow
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
~ Frederick Pollock
Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.
~ Ro Khanna
When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy.
~ Cyril Ramaphosa
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
~ Thomas Hobbes