Quotes About Dispute

Quarrelling with a drunkard is like disputing with a man who is not present there.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them?people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust,--about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Must we argue word choice? Now?

He rounded on me, indignant and astonished. "Are you contradicting me?" "Well, yes," I said, rather mildly. "You're wrong.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.

And so, as often happens when men of God disagree, a war erupted.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

Must you argue everything ? Yeah. I'm a lawyer.

Quarrels and acts of violence go hand in hand with the ceremonious abdication of all pride, of which they are the reverse. Noble families disputed fiercely for that same precedence in church by which they courteously pretended to set little store.

if you ever tell anyone about this conversation, not only will I deny everything but I'll sue you for libel." "A libel is written down," I told him. "If I tell someone, then it would be a slander. Although it wouldn't be anyway since it would be the truth." "Fuck you," he said.

Genuine friendship would survive any dispute or competition and true partnership would provide strength in times of trouble and confusion.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

Litigation solves everything.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

One could raise a similar set of objections regarding America's alleged theft of Mexican land. Texas used to be part of Mexico but broke off because of tyrannical laws imposed by a Mexican dictator. Texas then opted to join the United States. The Mexican War arose over a border dispute between Texas and Mexico. Mexico lost the war, and ceded the disputed land in a treaty in which the United States paid money and wrote off Mexican debts.

There had been no noise from any other part of the apartment, but that did not exclude the possibility of Paola's presence, especially if she had given her soul over to reading. He sometimes told her that Attila could storm through the house and she'd not notice if she were reading. She had most recently disputed this by claiming that it would depend on the book.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.