Top 14 Controverted Quotes
#1. Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.
Lauren Groff
#2. If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#3. Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.
Dean Acheson
#4. It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
Thomas Paine
#5. When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
Steven Johnson
#6. The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
John Stuart Mill
#7. There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
Billy Graham
#8. Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift
#9. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#10. The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.
Basilea Schlink
#11. In the morning I write love letters and in the afternoon I dig graves
Victor Hugo
#12. For once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
Sarah Dessen
#14. Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
Woody Allen