Best 100 quotes in «controversy quotes» category

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

If it matters, it produces controversy.

In the midnight hour I can feel your power...

I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Short people got no reason to live.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty' - the core doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill - was the right solution to the slavery controversy; and even though it had failed to solve much of anything in Kansas and Nebraska, he stubbornly insisted that this was because it had never been adequately tested.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial. One is, don’t repeat yourself. When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject: to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end?

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.