Quotes About Dispute

Our language has two words for what in your language is called 'true.' There is what's right, mimi, and what's precise, vough. In a dispute the principals say what they consider right; they speak mimi. The witnesses, however, are sworn to say precisely what happened; they speak vough. When Sabe has heard what happened he can decide what action is mimi for everyone. But it's not lying if the principals don't speak vough, as long as they speak mimi.

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

I've never spoken with Michelle Fields.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Every problem had a solution; every dispute had a compromise; every ego had a way to be stroked.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read

In a mud-slinging contest, everybody gets dirty.

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

that international law produces a form of displaced politics or conducts politics in a different key. I call this juridified diplomacy (chapter 6): the phenomenon by which conflict about the purpose and shape of international political life (as well as specific disputes in this realm) is translated into legal doctrine or resolved in legal institutions. War crimes trials are one of the institutional manifestations of this phenomenon.

Birds sing sweetly, but someone awakened by them at 5 A.M. of a summer morning might dispute the adverb.

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.

It's obvious you're just a bad loser," said Chloe. "I want my notebook!

It hurts and it costs you. It costs you plenty and the attorneys get most, get a good part and they cleverly fan the fire between you for their own goddamn gain.

He had discovered a great truth of nature. He had proved it and been disputed. He had tried to show how science is grounded in concrete practice rather than grand theories. In chasing a shadow, he felt, he had sacrificed his tranquillity.

It's not that I mind fighting with Trump's cheer squad... it's that it's so rarely a fair fight.

If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone's integrity or intent, we'd be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.