Controversy Quotes
-
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.
-
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
-
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
-
Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.
-
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
-
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
-
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
-
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe at all events when viva voce worse than useless.
-
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
-
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
-
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
-
I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
-
I am used to controversies.
-
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
-
When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.
-
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!
