Blood Feuds Quotes

#1. Muhammad preached his farewell sermon to the Muslim community. He reminded them to deal justly with one another, to treat women kindly, and to abandon the blood feuds and vendettas inspired by the spirit of jahiliyyah. Muslim must never fight against Muslim.

Karen Armstrong

#2. I'm Norwegian and our ghosts don't care about nookie, just raiding, blood feuds, and herring recipes.

Ani Gonzalez

#3. [On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

Jessica Hagedorn

#4. International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

Hassan Rouhani

#5. After over a century of one of the deepest blood feuds in the history of inhuman warfare, peace had finally descended on the sleepy coastal town of Beach Haven, New York. The unstable element of calm, however, is that it can retain its current form only when the variables remain relatively constant.

Phil Wohl

#6. [Some dogs] develop blood feuds with other dogs that are so serious that the only silver lining is a dog's inability to build nuclear weapons in the backyard. -- Patricia McConnell, A Tale of Two Species

Patricia McConnell

#7. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.

Steven Pinker

#8. Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.

Joe Queenan

#9. Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

Margaret Atwood

#10. I'm kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it's as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels.

Ryan Coogler

#11. Without foundation, there can be no fashion.

Christian Dior

#12. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

Daniel Webster

#13. Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

Chris Robinson

#14. Time applied equaled work completed. I

Ann Patchett

#15. We are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Bernard Malamud

#16. We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

#17. No. You show her how very much you love her by not letting her go.

Maya Banks

#18. In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat ... .

Woody Allen

#19. The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Honore De Balzac