Best 100 quotes in «controversy quotes» category

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

We have never solved the mystery of ice ages in the tropics, nor the equally strange mystery of the growth of corals and warm-climate flora in the polar zones. [...] It became obvious to me, as I reviewed these problems, and went back over the controversies that had marked their consideration, that a sort of common denominator was present. [...] [S]omebody usually tried to explain the particular problem in terms of changes in the position of the poles. This, I found, was the common denominator. The authors of such theories, unfortunately, were never able to prove their assumptions. The opponents of the notion of polar change always managed to point out fallacies that seemed decisive. At the same time, no one was able to reconcile all the evidence in the different fields with the idea that the poles have always been situated where they are now on the earth's surface. The theory here presented would solve these problems by supposing changes in the positions of the poles. Campbell has suggested that the changes have occurred not by reason of changes in the position of the earth's axis, but simply through a sliding of its crust.

Your prospects are not idiots, communicate respectfully - you might actually learn something to propel your marketing forward.

We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

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

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

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.

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.

Ahhh, I love to love you baby, ahhh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

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

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

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

Short people got no reason to live.

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

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

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.

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

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

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

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

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.

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

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

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

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

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