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Quotes About Contested

Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.
~ Leonard Matlovich
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
~ Virginia Woolf
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
~ Bianca Jagger
There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.
~ Donald Trump
I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.
~ Terence Trent D'Arby
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
~ Sarah Palin
Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.
~ Subramanian Swamy
And in all truth it can be said- yes the zionist jews were responsible for 9/11.
~ Henry Makow
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
~ Russell Sherman
When can we have an election like the Americans – no rowdiness or fighting or fuss and all seats contested on the same
~ Winston Graham
Even today, the contours of what is often referred to as the "Article III jurisdiction" of the federal courts remain contested. The important points here are simply these: that questions concerning the federal courts' jurisdiction are anchored deeply in the nation's constitutional origins, and that the Supreme Court itself has provided the answers.
~ Unknown
Despite that seemingly conclusive language, the scope of state immunity from suit was far from settled, and remains a contested question even today.
~ Unknown
meaning is everywhere contested. Each of their missions is instead meant to bring truth and its consequences into the life of someone who has woven a persona of lies, thereby putting an end to his or her crimes. There's no doubt that Lucia deserves to be terrified
~ Dean Koontz
With the publication of this book, Velikovsky's reputation thereafter and until his death found itself in deep, very deep, dodo, the kindest expression of which was that he "kindled a worldwide debate," which was conducted not only with enormous fervor, but also with serious dollops of malice, vengeful mouth-frothing by energetic intellectuals, etc. The central reason for the debate
~ Unknown
Desecration Regrets about violating sanctity were more numerous than regrets about subverting authority. These regrets were also emotionally intense—especially when they centered on one of the most fiercely contested issues of the last sixty years: abortion.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
~ John Turner
I think it has become more prevalent because the space has been left completely uncontested to the Muslim right wing, which does not respect anyone's rights whatsoever except for this one right to cover a woman's face,' she replied. 'No one has pushed back against the Muslim right wing. Integration has largely failed across Europe, even in the UK.
~ Nick Cohen
In the 1980s, research on post traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans was regarded as important, noble, and useful. When the same researchers looked at the same problem in children who had been sexually abused, a tremendous controversy ensued a controversy that persists to this day. There were those who disputed the extent and severity of the sexual abuse that had been uncovered.
~ Unknown