Contentiousness Quotes & Sayings

To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function under the same time constraints as everyone else. — Ben Mezrich

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. — Peter Davison

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl ... a big kid. — Coco Lee

The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast ... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet. — Edmund White

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit. — Aristotle.

Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life ... — Hillary Clinton

If someone confronts you with a negative attitude, don't let it draw you in and don't fight back with the same weapon, but instead, counter it with with positive powers and you will be victorious. But these positive powers must be real, Tora, and not feigned. For instance, if someone is looking to fight with you, react peacefully and his contentiousness will run its courses because it finds no resonance. — Roswitha Hedrun

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere — Tracy K. Smith

Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame. — Lao-Tzu

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment. — Bode Miller

Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you? — Sinclair Lewis