Strife Quotes
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
Pardis Sabeti -
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor -
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
Irving Howe -
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
Anna Hutchison -
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
William Wordsworth -
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.
Laura Lippman
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After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
Asif Ali Zardari -
It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
Confucius -
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides -
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
Heraclitus -
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
Confucius -
Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
John Milton
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I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.
Catherine the Great -
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch -
All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
William Shakespeare -
Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
Will Carleton -
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
Heraclitus -
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
William Howard Taft
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All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.
Terry Eagleton -
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
Euripides -
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Aristotle -
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
Will Durant