Quotes About Dispute

Some of my colleagues…acknowledge that the earth is warming, but insist that such warming (and cooling) is nothing unusual, and it's not catastrophic. The end result is that the skeptics tend to be tolerant of dispute and dissent because we do not necessarily agree among ourselves. The believers are not only intolerant of dissent—they are convinced that all skeptics must be motivated by greed or other evil forces….

The country was populous and wealthy, and patterns of landholding there complex and fragmented. What more could a lawyer want than a place in which endless occasions for dispute arose among a large population with plenty of money to spend on litigation?

I didn't know I had a quarrel with him.

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.

a whole series of arguments and texts showing that war—that is, the wounding and

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

What is memory anyway but a painful dispute with the past?

Êtes-vous si fort dans l'art de la dispute? demanda le curé, vous l'emportez sur les nôtres ! Je n'ai pas disputé, répondit M. de Rollebon, je lui ai fait peur de l'enfer.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

A civil war is anything but civil.

They turned. In the middle of the square three black and white vulturine scavengers with a wingspan of about six feet were disputing the dried remains of a cat. 'What do you call those?' asked Stephen. 'Those?' replied his guide, looking at them with narrowed eyes. 'Those are what we call birds, your worship.

or there will be wigs on the green.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously declared; but in modern America a lot of people do believe that they're entitled to their own facts.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms