Top 201 Contention Quotes & Sayings

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

My contention is even people who are living without social media are not just aware of it, they are affected by it.

What is feasible - and guys do this - is to be in contention every single week.

You don't want to end up with a huge tally of runs after eight games but with your team out of contention.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

Obviously, I have to do what's best for me and my family; I've got to put that first. But I definitely want to be on a team that's in contention.

Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.

I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

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.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.