Sara Sheridan Quotes

No one is served by continued uncertainty and fractious debate.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Discussion in America means dissent.

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

If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

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

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Disagreement is something normal.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

Life itself is controversy.

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

I hate consensus. I like confrontation.

When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.

You can never get two members of the family to agree on anything.

Not everyone will always agree with me.

I would never say don't have an argument.

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.