Contention Quotes
Collection of top 56 famous quotes about Contention
Contention Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Contention quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.
— Buju Banton
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
— Jack Nicklaus
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
— Pierre Corneille
Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots,
— Padraig Harrington
The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
— Seneca The Younger
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
— Lawana Blackwell
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
— Viktor E. Frankl
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
— Paul Winchell
The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
— Benjamin Whichcote
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
— Peter Singer
The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.
— Dallin H. Oaks
To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido
— Morihei Ueshiba
There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.
— Jack Nicklaus
It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.
— David Tepper
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
— Izaak Walton
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
— William Cowper
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
— Michel De Montaigne
Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
It haslong been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience. — Sigmund Freud
![Contention Quotes By Plautus: You will stir up the hornets.[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/contention-quotes-by-plautus-2177778.jpg "Contention Quotes By Plautus: You will stir up the hornets.[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]")
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
— Anita Brookner
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
— G.K. Chesterton
Contention, like a horse,Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him. — William Shakespeare
I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.
— Paula Creamer
The moment we try to capture and encapsulate Truth, we have paradox, confusion, contention [and] doubt[.]
— Steve Hagen
The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.
— Michael Medved
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— Thomas Aquinas
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
— Michel De Montaigne
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.
— Jose Mourinho
Doc's idea of "clarifyin' a point of contention" came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.
— Mary Doria Russell
Life is a race against time
— Sunday Adelaja
Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don't let style become a point of contention.
— Ed Stetzer
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
— George Herbert
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
— Oswald Chambers
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
— William Cowper
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.
— Thomas Jefferson
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
— Claude Levi-Strauss