Quotes About Dispute

Get crossways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand brick has fell on you.

Petermann's staunchest enemy in Great Britain was Clements R. Markham of the Royal Geographical Society. Markham had come to regard Petermann as a charlatan and a windbag.

Constitutional rights do not always have easily ascertainable boundaries, and controversy over the meaning of our Nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent. As judges, however, we are sworn to uphold the law even when its content gives rise to bitter dispute.

el arte de la dialéctica de dos voluntades opuestas que utilizan la fuerza para resolver su disputa».[1]

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

History is not a set of facts but a series of arguments, issues, and controversies.

I cannot quite agree with you there.

Woolf criticism has not evolved smoothly, and it would be misleading to say that any one approach or interpretation has ever prevailed to the exclusion of others. There are continuities and discontinuities in trends and arguments, areas of common ground and major points of dispute.

People who have never sued anyone or been sued have missed a narcissistic pleasure that is not quite like any other.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

The thing that poisons life for gunmen and sometimes makes them wonder moodily if it is worth-while going on is this tendency of the outside public to butt in at inconvenient moments. Whenever you settle some business dispute with a commercial competitor by means of your sub-machine gun, it always turns out that there was some officious witness passing at the time, and there you are, with a new problem confronting you.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

expostulated

Where's my money? I'm very angry because I believe I am owed some money which you are preventing me from obtaining

The followers of Arius (born c. 250) believed that Christ, being the most perfect creature in the material world, had been adopted by God as a son. And the view had been spread by Arius' popular poetic work, Thalia (Banquet), which led to Arius' condemnation by the bishops as a heretic, and his exile from his post as priest in Alexandria. Constantine betrayed his own theological innocence when he called this dispute a fight over trifling and foolish verbal differences.

We can argue about it for a thousand years, but there's never going to be an argument powerful enough to end the argument, because every argument has a counterargument.

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

but trial by combat was unknown.

The last great dispute of the era was a heavily theological affair between Hippolytus, one of the most influential theologians at Rome, and Callistus, the bishop of that city.

His dad was in the UQ Navy," he said to me. "Got tinnitus or some shit in a fucking idiot's skirmish with a Bes? tugboat over some disputed lobster pots or whatever.

And in the midst of it all stood a middle-aged man and woman in their bedclothes, arguing violently.

troublesome Southerners.