Dispute Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (D) Quotes

Regarding his spat with New Line: "We have a great many friends at New Line and utmost respect for the risk they took with us and it hurts to be hit with the level of venom directed at us from individuals in that company. It`s been a lot more nasty behind the scenes than what`s been made public. It`s just an accounting dispute at the end of the day, but it makes you wonder what they have to hide."

- Peter Jackson

That`s what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn`t that the Irish way?

- Lara Flynn Boyle

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

- Shakira

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

- Frank Zappa

That`s why there is the dispute over who is part of the student body. It affects how difficult it is to meet the requirements of the consensus clause.

- Christopher Jones

The most frustrating thing of all to me is there is no need for this dispute. We`ve always worked well in Iowa and could have in this instance,

- Kathleen Sullivan

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

- Aristotle

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that`s about international terrorism. No, it`s not.

- Chris Matthews

We were told that there was some type of dispute over the match.

- Steve Barnett

The players` association strongly believed that this dispute belonged in the grievance procedure.

- Michael Weiner

We`re moving ahead with our WTO case to have a dispute settlement panel formed on July 20.

- Richard Mills

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

- Stephen Harper

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

- Dick Morris

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.

- Adam Wiszowaty

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

- Adina Rosenbaum

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

- Ahmad Bahai

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

- Alain de Vogue

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

- Alain Senderens

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

- Albert Gray

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

- Albert Newgarden

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

- Alexandre Vasarhelyi

No one can dispute that our military is the greatest in the world. That elite status comes as a result of the constant training of military personnel.

- Alissa Czisny

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

- Alton Greene

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

- Amy Popp

You write a letter of dispute to the credit reporting agency, they have 30 days to investigate the dispute and get back to you. If they cannot prove it`s your debt, they have to take it off.

- Andy Lebow

We are giving the government a very strong reason to sit down with the teachers and solve this dispute.

- Art Anderson

We will re-evaluate this on Sunday and see where this dispute has got to and hopefully at that time we can announce that we`ve solved the problem.

- Art Anderson

The dispute started within four weeks of my beginning work,

- Art Snead

The dispute is about the extent that (Sony BMG and Warner) have not licensed their music for (Apple`s) Japanese services, which is significant, considering Japan is the second biggest market after the U.S.. It`s a question of existing contracts versus future contracts.

- Aubin Goporo

both parties to continue to cooperate and work toward resolving this dispute and the others between them in an amicable and constructive fashion.

- Aubrey Jewett

That dispute arose under the previous Liberal administration which favored abortion on demand. Unless the new minister, Tony Clement, favors Medicare fraud, he should drop the matter. It is not about being for or against abortion, it is a question of respecting the law.

- Auwalu Haruna

It was a civil dispute and it was resolved amicably between parties.

- Bahram Mobasher

A long dispute means both parties are wrong

- Voltaire