Contention Quotes - Page 5

• Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

  Ed Stetzer

  Style, Denominations, Defined

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• Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

  Gay Hendricks

  Beginning Middle And End, Argument, Ends

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• The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Real, Passion, Issues

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Feelings, Opponents

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• One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!

  Richard L. Evans

  Home, Heart, Feelings

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• How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Character, Gossip, Rumor

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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

  Izaak Walton

  Hate, Blessing, Fishing

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers”, p.246

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• People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Moving, Government, People

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• In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.

  Walter Pater

  Art, School, Stupidity

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

  Paula Creamer

  Golf, Love Is, Courses

  "U.S. Women's Open pre-tournament notes and interviews". www.lpga.com. July 3, 2012.

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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Choices, Path

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• I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

  George Washington

  Religious, Regret, Spring

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

  Saadi

  Sex, Husband, Wife

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• There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Religion, Unnatural

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.128

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• My wife and I lived all alone,
  contention was our only bone.
  I fought with her, she fought with me,
  and things went on right merrily.
  But now I live here by myself
  with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
  and pass my days with little cheer
  since I have parted from my dear.

  Robert Creeley

  Marriage, Cheer, Wife

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Adventure, Army

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• Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to open up the high frontier. What we do during the next ten or twenty years may determine whether future generations will live in a humane and rewarding society, or whether they will spend their lives in desperate contention for the dwindling sustenance afforded by our limited terrestrial resources.

  Philip K. Chapman

  Space, Our Generation, Years

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• In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Years, Next

  "Leaner and meaner" by Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Soul, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.168

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• Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Contentment, Together, Riches

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.108, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  William Cowper

  Gossip, Ears, Trumpets

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.212

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• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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