Contentious – Quotes

Becoming a mom made

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste. Edie Brickell

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of … Read more

Aristotle… a mere bond-servant

Aristotle… a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. Francis Bacon

…he was part of

…he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. Dean Koontz

I think that there

I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don’t regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology. David Papineau

For whatever reason, we

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that’s different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. David Levithan

It’s only in the

It’s only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other…. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that’s different, and most … Read more

Becoming a mom made

Uses are always much

Aristotle… a mere bond-servant

…he was part of

I think that there

For whatever reason, we

It’s only in the

But to proceed in

Europe was a very

It’s such a contentious