Contentious Quotes

Contentious Quote of the day

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.

I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.