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Quotes About Dispute

Adrianne and Jo commenced a catfight. They yelled and screamed at each other. F-bombs here. "You bitch" there.
~ M. William Phelps
Solving a dispute often requires each side to back down a little, something else Theo had learned from his parents.
~ John Grisham
forming the ideas that were to pit him so vehemently against Mary in later years.
~ John Guy
he was expelled from the castle by Moray and the laird and forbidden to return.
~ John Guy
patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
~ John Irving
So oft in theologic wars, / The disputants, I ween, / Rail on in utter ignorance / Of what each other mean, / And prate about an Elephant / Not one of them has seen.
~ Unknown
We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.
~ Michael O'Leary
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
~ Elizabeth I
it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
Aldfrith grew tired of the constant arguments and banished the troublesome bishop from his kingdom for a second time.68
~ Unknown
Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty who made Thee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'n Such as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
~ John Milton
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~ John Sandford
The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.
~ Subramanya Bharathi
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...
~ Margaret Cavendish
What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.
~ Margaret MacMillan
Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
~ Margaret Way
It was a little skirmish across a century.
~ Margery Allingham
Killing her and the boys had not been the best way to resolve the custody dispute.
~ Unknown
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
~ Moses Mendelssohn
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
~ Thomas Paine