Quotes About Dispute

I bore it in silence. It does no good to dispute with such a man.

would mark the start of periodic warfare between

The church claims that the document is a forgery.

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

Twelve-gauge lead shot settles most disputes at the first time of asking.

I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.'" Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

I didn't kill that man and if you say I did I'll deny everything.

Look at every territorial dispute you care to mention. Northern Ireland, for instance." "Religion in that case," Jamie ventured. "Not just. Religion was the badge of identity, but it wasn't really about whether you went to Mass or to a tub-thumping Protestant chapel. It was a result of the movement of people. The Protestant planters—many of them Scots—replaced the native Irish, remember? Movement of people again.

remove the cold war and internal conflicts multiply in countries by the week.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Most arguments are useless.

Tomorrow we settle this like children.

Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.

What, surprised that the bone you're fighting over can talk? Well fuck all of you!

Fight your battles with words, not fists

The official Soviet line on the dispute emphasised harmony, homogeneity, Brotherhood. Kievan Rus was inhabited by a single monolithic 'ancient Rus' nationality, from which Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians all descended; for them to argue over Volodymyr and Yaroslav made no more sense than for the English and French to squabble over Charlemagne. The languages of all three nations descend from the ancient Slavs', and all three inherited Orthodoxy.

Hier, on se disputait à reconstituer le séjour de Leningrad, l'emploi du temps des deux jours. Il voulait lire mon journal. On a encore parlé de Staline, de la guerre. Son père a été « décoré » par Staline...

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.