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Quotes About Dispute

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
~ Mark Twain
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
~ J. P. Donleavy
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
~ Steven Weinberg
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
~ Voltaire
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
~ Alexander Pope
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
~ George Orwell
Argument is to me the air I breathe.
~ Gertrude Stein
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
~ Samuel Johnson
Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.
~ Daphne Gottlieb
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
~ William Shakespeare
The worst quarrels only arise when both sides are equally in the right and in the wrong.
~ Winston S. Churchill
If countries remote from a dispute were among those called upon in the first instance to achieve a settlement the result was likely to be merely vapid and academic discussion.
~ Winston S. Churchill
In any quarrel among men, if one side proclaims its complete impotence of will and hand, there are no bounds to the evils that may ensue.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The Papal throne at this time was occupied by Innocent III, one of the greatest of the medieval Popes, renowned for his statecraft and diplomacy, and intent on raising to its height the temporal power of the Church. The dispute between John and the monastery of Canterbury over the election to the Archbishopric offered Innocent the very chance he sought for asserting Papal authority in England.
~ Winston S. Churchill
This case needs a Solomon, unfortunately we got Roy Bean.
~ Woody Allen
He did much to keep different groups of Franciscans together, one of the many reasons that have led a majority of Franciscan historians to regard Bonaventure's generalate as a blessing in which his moderation saved the order from chaos.47 For those who are inclined to doubt this view, it is important to recall that shortly after his death, the order fell into nearly four decades of fractious dispute, which turned deadly in 1318, when four Spirituals were burned at the stake in Marseilles.48
~ Unknown
quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
You would save them. If you could." "No. There are periods in revolution when to live is a crime, and people must know how to yield their heads if they are demanded. Perhaps mine will be. If that time comes, I won't dispute it.
~ Hilary Mantel
No one is ever benefited by going to the court of law. Movie Chal Chala Chal
~ Unknown
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
~ Unknown
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time.
~ Unknown
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
~ Evan Osnos
I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
~ Daddy Yankee