Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Controversy though always an evil in itself is sometimes a necessary evil.
No great advance has ever been made in science politics or religion without controversy.
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together because it gives his answerer double work.
The precipitancy of disputation and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it must needs be prejudicial to verity.
Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
People like controversy because that's what sells.
The greater the controversy the more you need manners.
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy.
In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
I think you don't do work for controversy alone and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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?
If it matters it produces controversy.
My intention... isn't to create controversy.
My books have all generated controversy.
Some people want to have controversy between the races.
Politics or controversy or party spirit or worldliness have eaten
I don't have time to think about the false controversy
The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
Throughout my political life I've not been a stranger to controversy.
My career has been riddled with controversy which I never fully understand.
History is the arbiter of controversy the monarch of all she surveys.
I stay as far away from politics as possible or any controversy.
The media will make a controversy out of anything if they can.
I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
The curse of modern times is that almost everything does create controversy.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory
In general a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything it gets people interested.
It can't hurt publicity is publicity controversy and all that it's all good.
No great advance has been made in science politics or religion without controversy.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!
I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
Oh my God I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
Out of anger comes controversy out of controversy comes conversation out of conversation comes action.
I love it when my books cause controversy when people argue violently about the ending.
I cannot whilst President of the United States descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon offensive and defensive.
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.
The line often adopted by strong men in controversy of justifying the means by the end.
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything.
My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is and ought to be most valued.
I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy political or otherwise.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
There's a lot of controversy online some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood but I love it.
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
What you leave at your death let it be without controversy else the lawyers will be your heirs.
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort but in terms of change and controversy
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens but I'm not there to argue politics.
When men understand what each other mean they see for the most part that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
In politics the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.
Whether thats positive or not people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth if I did less I would not be worth living.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings demonstrated its influence and intensified the controversy over its practices.
Whether that's positive or not people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
From the outset however this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character...
A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher a clarifier and your friend especially if you are trying to make change.
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.
First I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth...
The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.
In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present I believe that I am that strange animal the individual without any politics at all.
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
The late William Jennings Bryan L.L.D. always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that on deeper examination is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.
I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.
Of all people who engage in controversy we who are called Calvinists are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with
People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this that with boundless promises to believing prayer there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
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.
Though I'm not the first king of controversy I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy.
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.
When you know in your heart why you did something and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right doesn't matter.
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.
It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources the training the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively.
A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact Nelson Mandela was so upset he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing when world leaders start calling your father.
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor though important place.
A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
Takes birth in me also dies in debris.I am a Potpourri.A mix of dead petals effusing divine fragrance.Walking on the journey of controversy.I am a Potpourri.
We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy I deserved to be criticized and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.
I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view a good thing.
Speaking of the motto of the New York Times "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.
I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy at any rate that anything that exists is possible.
How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.