Top 100 Quotes About Quarrel
#1. My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.
Rick Perry
#2. God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract
Look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this? We'll take it right out, eh?
Groucho Marx
#4. What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
George Eliot
#5. It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?
Imre Kertesz
#6. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston S. Churchill
#7. Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. The usual structure, and one with which we have no quarrel, is one which begins with the earliest work in this area and proceeds via the most important past work up to the present. Your
Gordon Rugg
#9. Now, I know myself, I am annoyed, I shall loose my temper and begin to quarrel, and demean myself and my ideas.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
Joseph Conrad
#12. Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent?
Hilary Mantel
#13. People say that where there's life, there's hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.
Stephen King
#15. I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
William Booth
#17. If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.
Ai Yazawa
#18. The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not ... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?
James Davison Hunter
#19. Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet every summer, when our peppers are drying from green to red, one can see an intermediate stage that is precisely reddish green.
Guy Davenport
#20. As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.
Albert Einstein
#21. Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky - Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world - woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. Rightly looked upon,' mused Gotthold, 'it is ourselves that we cannot forgive, when we refuse forgiveness to our friend. Some strand of our own misdoing is involved in every quarrel.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#23. Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.
Howard Zinn
#24. Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
Idries Shah
#25. Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
#26. I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.
Michael Moorcock
#27. You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
Catherine The Great
#28. To seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.
Alexandre Dumas
#29. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust
Josh Billings
#30. To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
Margaret Deland
#31. My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border and begin to explore the other world.
George H. Hepworth
#32. It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
Aime Martin
#33. War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
Heinrich Heine
#35. She supposed that it it perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking
Diana Gabaldon
#36. A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand
#37. As so often happens when scientists quarrel, a lay audience is left to choose their preferred fairy tale
Richard T. Nash
#38. Don't quarrel with yourself; you'll only lose!
Raheel Farooq
#39. Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
#40. From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato The Elder
#41. The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
Edmund Wilson
#42. The most common motives for homicide are moralistic: retaliation after an insult, escalation of a domestic quarrel, punishing an unfaithful or deserting romantic partner, and other acts of jealousy, revenge, and self-defense.
Steven Pinker
#43. Yes, we will quarrel incessantly and fight for dominance. And yes, there will be ravishes of passion, but there will also be gentle lulls. That is who we are together.
A.G. Howard
#44. The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace. He
Winston Graham
#45. It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Matthew Prior
#47. The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.
Radhanath Swami
#48. There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
Alfred North Whitehead
#50. Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn't solve anything ... I don't like yelling and fighting and I can't quarrel, I prefer to let it drop ... When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.
Grace Kelly
#51. Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.
George A. Smith
#53. Usually a quarrel between Cale and Sonya would amuse Sebastian, but today it barely registered. His constant attention was on Anya. She was laughing and enjoying herself with another male, and that bothered him more than it should.
~Sebastian from Demon Possession
Kiersten Fay
#54. What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
#55. Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.
William Shakespeare
#56. Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.
Bryant McGill
#57. It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
Marquis De Lafayette
#59. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.
Charles Caleb Colton
#60. When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?He says, So my master will suffer loss.
Shams Tabrizi
#61. Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
Philip Pullman
#62. There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
Sivananda
#63. I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy
#66. I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.
Lawrence James
#67. But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
Plato
#68. Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Meister Eckhart
#70. Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
Gelett Burgess
#71. The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.
Theodore Roosevelt
#72. A child cannot quarrel with it's elders, as I had done-cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine-without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
Charlotte Bronte
#73. The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
Albion W. Small
#75. I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.
Grace Kelly
#76. If the reader says the state of affairs which I wish to bring about is right, or is just, or is inevitable and if this must lead into further deterioration, then I will have no quarrel with it. I might even, in some circumstances, feel obliged to support him.
T. S. Eliot
#77. It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.
Heber C. Kimball
#78. I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork "
"Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said.
"Over my dead body " I said.
"Eventually " he said.
"Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#79. The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.
Jon Meacham
#81. It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard
#82. In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Herman Kahn
#83. In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer ... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.
Deborah Turbeville
#84. How can you expect four women to dine together alone every day, and not quarrel?
Wilkie Collins
#85. A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.
Robert Breault
#86. There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Henry Taylor
#89. Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this was when we made love, it was every anniversary, every reunion in an airport or train station, every reconciliation after a quarrel. This was the whole of our lives together.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#90. It is my ignorance of God's design that makes me quarrel with him.
John Flavel
#91. She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.
D.H. Lawrence
#92. I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be.
I was the happiest man in the world.
Mary Street
#93. I did not want to quarrel with her, although I thought her both presumptuous and rude.
George MacDonald
#94. I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny," said Edmund affectionately, "must be beyond the reach of any sermons.
Jane Austen
#95. It is natural to quarrel, to be selfish, to live a small-minded life. It is supernatural to love unconditionally, to serve others, to live a life of vision and faith.
Sally Clarkson
#96. Try to see the world as a great education in Love and do not quarrel with your lot in life. Do not complain because of your unending cares and anxieties, your mean surroundings, the small and sordid souls you are obliged to live with. That is God's way of making you practise.
Paulo Coelho
#97. If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.
Francis Bond Head
#98. There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
Hermann Hesse
#99. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
W.B.Yeats
#100. Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
L. Ron Hubbard
