Controversy Quotes
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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.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
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.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
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My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
Estelle -
You run it because there's a news reason to run it. The controversy does not appear to have died down. It's still a news issue.
Amanda Bennett -
In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis of legality and should have no effect on any court.
David B. Rivkin -
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.
William Goldman -
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.
Stewart Lee
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The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
Edgar Friedenberg -
Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
Gerald W. Johnson -
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.
Lewis Carroll -
I am used to controversies.
Sharad Pawar -
I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
Stu Jackson -
... 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!
Herbert Spencer
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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.
Rowan Williams -
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.
Charles Grandison Finney