#dispute

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#apply #contend #cry #die #dispute

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dispute #doubt #ease #fact #ignorance

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#cannot #decades #disputed #interested #jewish

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity. ↗

— Alexander Wiley

#charity #christian #dispute #jews #settle

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#fact #help #help people #i #i think

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#because #block #building #building block #claim

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#above #back #bill #bill clinton #clinton

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all. ↗

— Edward Grey

#ambassador #austria #became #between #concerned

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#be careful #careful #command #dispute #doors