Contention Quotes

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

  

  Rick Moody
  • Style
  • Contention

• The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

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

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Love
  • Effect
  • Zeal

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

  

  Padraig Harrington
  • Believe
  • Shots
  • Contention

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Man
  • Spare

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

  

  William Cowper
  • Dust
  • Contests
  • Contention

• They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

  

  Thomas More
  • Pleasure
  • Garden
  • Certain

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Horse
  • Bears
  • Broke

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

  

  William Cowper
  • Gossip
  • Ears
  • Trumpets

• Debate is the death of conversation.

  

  Emil Ludwig
  • Death
  • Conversation
  • Argument

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

  

  Buju Banton
  • Home
  • Nights
  • Contention

• Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was not my will, but thine be done.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Spirit
  • Pride
  • Christ

• My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

  

  Nel Noddings
  • Achievement
  • Academic
  • Contention

• Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Defined
  • Contention
  • Denomination

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

  

  Izaak Walton
  • Quiet
  • Contention
  • Angling

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

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt
  • Contention

• The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?

  

  Mustafa Akyol
  • Prayer
  • Talking
  • Islamic

• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Heart
  • Causes

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

  

  Joyce Appleby
  • Knowledge
  • Contention
  • Discourses

• But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

  

  Homer
  • Spirit
  • Breast
  • Contention