What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.
Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
I don't have time to think about the false controversy.
If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.
I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.
Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all took place in Vietnam and now it just won't go away. I was thinking about this - if John Kerry had just ducked the war like everybody else he wouldn't have this trouble.
I am used to controversies.
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.