Quotes About Contention

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

There's no love lost between me and Mitt Romney.

We've always been enemies, Flay. And we always will be.

Every term of opprobrium that Álvares hurled at Magellan strengthened

Columbus and Fonseca despised one another and fought bitterly.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Proverbios tiene mucho que decir sobre el valor de los consejos sabios. Proverbios 13.10 declara que «ciertamente la soberbia concebirá contienda; mas con los avisados está la sabiduría». Proverbios 20.5 ofrece esta instrucción: «Como aguas profundas es el consejo en el corazón del hombre; mas el hombre entendido lo alcanzará».

Deal with him, Hemingway!

and House are enemies….

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

My way of thinking is better than yours.

Public debate over almost everything devolves into trench warfare, in which the most important goal is to establish that the other person is wrong.

Civil government alone, or the government of laws, is not productive of pretences for many taxes; it operates at home, directly under the eye of the country, and precludes the possibility of much imposition. But when the scene is laid in the uncivilized contention of governments, the field of pretences is enlarged, and the country, being no longer a judge, is open to every imposition, which governments please to act.

It was a story that, sadly, always had war at the heart of it.

It's always great to have an enemy in politics; there's no question about that.

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.

Stop me if you've heard this one. Mickey Mouse is filing for divorce and the judge looks down and he says: I understand that it is your contention that your wife Minnie Mouse is mentally deranged. Is that correct? And Mickey says: No, Your Honor, that's not what I said. What I said was she's fucking nuts. The

Get crossways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand brick has fell on you.

we are all inevitably someone's adversary.

History is not a set of facts but a series of arguments, issues, and controversies.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

I cannot quite agree with you there.