Quotes About Dispute

Let's bomb Fishface's house!

He had dreamed of being an interpreter for diplomats and dignitaries, resolving conflicts between people and nations, settling disputes of which he alone could understand both sides.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Think of it, half the race is over, and I still stand here at the starting line—me, the first one out of his swaddling clothes and into his track suit! a hundred and fifty-eight points of I.Q., and still arguing with the authorities about the rules and regulations! disputing the course to be run! calling into question the legitimacy of the track commission!

Justice is the application of previously decided and accepted norms of conduct and the rules for their examination and dispute.

Justice is the application of previously decided and accepted norms of conduct and the rules for their examination and dispute. It is as imperfect as any other institution. But a dispassionate, considerate, supportable, and moral resolution of differences is the goal toward which it aspires.

I'm also getting a kick out of "having a blue," which means having a fight. You could say, "It was a serious blue," or "We had a blue," or "If I talk to this woman there's going to be a blue." You could also say, "I'm ready to put the blue on.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

I like arguments.

Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

I'd agree with you, except that agreeing with you probably means I'm on the wrong side of the argument.

Fustilarian?

But that was the way of it everywhere: there you were, getting on with things, minding your own business, and suddenly some arsehole decides to start a war.

She had a bit of a dustup with another student, set fire to the kid's books in the school cafeteria.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Respect for self, respect for others, and responsibility for negative actions. A friend in need is a friend indeed, don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.