Contentious People Quotes

#1. 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.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

#2. I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Ludacris

#3. In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

Chuck Klosterman

#4. If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

Donna Lynn Hope

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#6. It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

John Maynard Keynes

#7. You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

Peter Kreeft

#8. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.

Isaac Of Nineveh

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

Daniel Lopatin

#11. But, sire, I implore your mercy, for I am innocent." "Your

Anonymous

#12. I didn't write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'm not even sure who they all are. I can't wait to see the movie.

Stan Lee

#13. You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

Stephen Daldry

#14. What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it was emotional; but, ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.

Barack Obama

#15. How do you effectively separate the infected from the others? How

Max Brooks

#16. Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.

Barack Obama

#17. I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

Dan Pearce

#18. I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Charles W. Chesnutt

#19. 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.

Mike DeWine

#20. I'm not attracted to grumpy older men. Yeah, I'd just keep telling myself that.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#21. What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.

Dan Shaughnessy

#22. Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

William Lyon Phelps

#23. 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.

Sean Hannity

#24. The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Fran Lebowitz