Quarreled Quotes

#1. Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

Gore Vidal

#2. I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

Marge Piercy

#4. Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose. George

Philippa Gregory

#5. We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn't give. I wanted what he didn't have.

Larry McMurtry

#6. I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

Gloria Whelan

#7. I didn't know myself well, and still don't. But I did know, and know now, the few people I loved and trusted. My feeling for them is one part of me I have never quarreled with, even though my relations with them have more than once been abrasive.

Wallace Stegner

#8. We quarreled in the gray morning dew about morals; and made up over a red bathing suit.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#9. They (books) were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends - daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide.

Cornelia Funke

#10. I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

Edgar Degas

#12. As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.

Joseph Heller

#13. People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Emanuel Celler

#14. The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

Dave Beard

#15. When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded quite simply: "I did not know we had ever quarreled.

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#16. For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Felix Adler

#17. Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!

Daniel Boone

#19. I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Stewart Udall

#20. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote

Leo Tolstoy

#21. The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

David Whyte

#22. Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Susana Fortes

#23. You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Jack Kevorkian

#24. Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.

Edgar Mitchell

#25. Still, I'd do anything for him. Even smear his clotting blood inside the vehicle of his choosing.

Jennifer Estep

#26. Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Donald Miller

#27. Oh, this is horriculous.

Lisa Kleypas