#disputes

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#disputes #marriage #relationships #sorry #love

...Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#borders #feuds #grudges #land-disputes #sins-of-the-fathers

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. ↗

— Archibald Cox

#been #centuries #concerned #disputes #enable

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. ↗

— John Wilkins

#disputes #each #excellent #give #hard

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ↗

— John Locke

#fewer #great #ideas #only #our

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#destructiveness #disputes #few #few men #foe

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alternative #been #begins #considered #country

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#care #courts #disputes #does #encouraging

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. ↗

— James Buchanan

#arbiter #ballot #ballot box #box #disputes

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#between #brethren #disputes #fires #own