Disputed Quotes

Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

He says some things which are taken as gospel, when they ought to be disputed. When he writes 'Courage is no good / It means not scaring others', you want to say that just isn't true. There is more to courage than that.

,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

This is disputed land, not Palestinian, or we claim public ownership.

We have never disputed this. This would at least allow (the) project to obtain some funding, if it became available. However, given the current tight state budget, the odds of the state financing any, or part of any, project in the current State Water Plan are very low. In fact, the odds are so low that it is not worth talking about.

I feel like I won, but I'm going in as the underdog because the results were disputed, ... Until I prove otherwise, that's the situation. This is supposed to be all in fun. I don't want to scratch anyone's eyeballs out. But I'm competitive by nature.

He never disputed (Diana's) charges, ... He never wanted anyone to defend him. With the result, her version of the events is the accepted version, accepted wisdom and I think it's extremely unfair to the Prince of Wales.

[What impact the earthquake may have on the politics of the disputed region remains unclear. So far, the opposing sides have been unwilling to coordinate relief efforts, although] both Indian and Pakistani politicians are concerned about putting on a good show and getting up there and demonstrating they're active, ... But it may also have affected some of the Pakistani-based terrorist groups that have operated in India-administered Kashmir.

Why India would accept self-rule in Kashmir as it has been controlling large part of the disputed region.

The dam was being built within the water resources policy of Pakistan. Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.

The disputed point is when is this type of symbol clearly recognizable as such.

The numbers and figures can be disputed, but the essential purpose is not only to remind our future generation not to commit all that happened here, again in East Timor, but also to remind the international community to try to do everything so that it doesn't happen again elsewhere.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air.