Quotes About Contention

The moment we try to capture and encapsulate Truth, we have paradox, confusion, contention [and] doubt[.]

Las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.

Porque las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.

If the scriptures had been written with one half of the care and ability with which they have been explained and defended, they would not have been the cause of so much contention and mischief, and they would not have stood in need of so much explanation and defense.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

families were fighting for an eel's head, which

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

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

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

So long as one man wants another man's wife, or another man's land, or another man's cattle, or another man's silver, so long will there be war. And so long as one priest preaches that his god is the only god or the better god there will be war.

A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.

Those who do not understand war believe it contention between armies, friend against foe. No. Rather friend and foe duel as one against an unseen antagonist, whose name is Fear, and seek, even entwined in death, to mount to that promontory whose ensign is honor.

It is the contention of Mr Norrell of Hanover-square that everything belonging to John Uskglass must be shaken out of modern magic, as one would shake moths and dust out of an old coat. What does he imagine he will have left? If you get rid of John Uskglass you will be left holding the empty air.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.

Some may belittle politics but we who are engaged in it know that it is where people stand tall. Although I know that it has many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. If it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. I wish everyone, friend or foe, well. That is that. The end.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

For not even lions or dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one another.

neutralizer. My job is to neutralize the state's case. Take each piece of evidence or proof and find a way to eliminate it from contention.

When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad cop. Then I had the media camped out in front of my house when I retired. Then, you know, I am the evilest thing on the planet. Then I write a few books, and then I start getting involved, like the Martha Moxley case.

Competition is a sin.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.