Fractious Quotes

#1. If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don't want it, then we go on as we are, fractious and impotent.

Edward Abbey

#2. We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.

Tom Hiddleston

#3. Garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant - given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. The IMF was a more formal and less fun place to work than Treasury. The meetings were endless, with crushing bureaucracy, an intrusive and fractious executive board, an appalling amount of paper, and a lot of factional conflict among various fiefdoms.

Timothy F. Geithner

#5. I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Dickens

#6. For more details about the Curies especially, see Sheilla Jones's wonderful book The Quantum Ten, an account of the surprisingly contentious and fractious early days of quantum mechanics, circa 1925.

Sam Kean

#7. fractious, four-legged children of Satan,

Rick Atkinson

#8. We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.

Joshua Ferris

#9. While other founding fathers were reared in tidy New England villages or cosseted on baronial Virginia estates, Hamilton grew up in a tropical hellhole of dissipated whites and fractious slaves, all framed by a backdrop of luxuriant natural beauty. On

Ron Chernow

#10. To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. she also had a little dog that ran round yapping. One of those Mexican cockroaches that you could drown in a teacup.

Leif G.W. Persson

#12. The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,
the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#13. The courage to receive time 's mightiest dream

E. E. Cummings

#14. You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

Jonathan Tropper

#15. Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Wally Lamb

#16. This aye night, this aye night; Every night and all; Fire and fleet and candlelight; And Christ receive thy soul

Neil Gaiman

#17. All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

Rob Hawthorne

#18. Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

Stephen Hopkins

#19. And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

Edward Young

#20. I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

Celia Green

#21. Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.

Trystan Owain Hughes

#22. Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

Klaus Fuchs

#23. No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Los Angeles Times

#24. I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Madeleine Albright