Contention Quotes

Contention Quote of the day

When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.

Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in 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.

Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

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

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

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.

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.