Quotes of: Disputed Keyword

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Stephen Vizinczey

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

Lawrence Wright

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Samuel Butler

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Cyril Connolly

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

Ruth J. Simmons

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Elbert Hubbard

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Barry Unsworth

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

Frank B. Kellogg

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

Annie Jacobsen

The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and im...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

Human, All Too Human

A blanket could be used to settle disputes. Hold my penis while I demonstrate how it would work.  

Brick

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.

Sean Quinn

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Thomas Frank

If repairing one's credit is as easy as sending some dispute letters to the credit bureaus then why doesn't everyone have good credit?

Tyler Gregory

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Rand Paul

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Stephen Harper

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin