Quotes On Squabbling

#1. I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

Jack London

#2. If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

Judith Tarr

#3. I feel that if I could sweep all this away ... all the buildings and the sects and the fierce squabbling churches ... that I might see Christ's quiet figure riding into Jerusalem on a donkey
and believe in him.

Agatha Christie

#4. Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance.

Tessa Dare

#5. Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

John Roberts

#6. There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. The wind stirred the drying leaves of wild grapevines with a papery rustle behind me, and in the distance a murder of crows passed, squabbling in shrill cries.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. Man to man, my eye Kipps snorted. It was like seeing two schoolgirls squabbling over a scented pencil. You should have heard the squeals.

Jonathon Stroud

#9. Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

John Hagee

#10. The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

Stephen L. Carter

#11. I bore silent witness, thinking, There is no army of abolition. This is what the world has for heroes. Ordinary men, squabbling and prideful. Hassling each other, doing their best, busting the world free. And men like me, behind fake papers and clear-glass spectacles, keeping it chained.

Ben H. Winters

#12. The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

Pat Buchanan

#13. Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

Pete Rozelle

#14. And squabbling was de rigueur in Fairyland - not even cats were as bad.*

Terry Pratchett

#15. They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.

Erika Johansen

#16. It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Pierre Bayle

#17. On the other side of the curtain, children were squabbling, a baby was crying, and there was the smell of rat-and-cabbage casserole. Someone was sharpening an axe. And someone else was snoring. For a dwarf in Ankh-Morpork, solitude was something that you had to cultivate on the inside. Books

Terry Pratchett

#18. Emil and Jack established rival claims to a certain thick patch, and while they were squabbling about, Stuffy quickly and quietly stripped the bushes and fled to the protection of Dan

Louisa May Alcott

#19. She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Jack London

#20. You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind. -Hera, goddess of marriage

Rick Riordan

#21. Maybe individual people seem irrational because they aren't really individuals! Each one of us is a little nation-state, doing our best to settle disputes and broker compromises between the squabbling voices that drive us.

Jordan Ellenberg

#22. Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

Burt Shavitz

#23. If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

G.S. Jennsen

#24. Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

Alex Berenson

#25. When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

Jonah Goldberg

#26. Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!

Burt Shavitz

#27. I think I'll just go take a shower, I said.
It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

Patricia Briggs

#28. I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.

Mary Mihalic

#29. There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles

Joshua Kadison

#30. Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

Anthony Bourdain

#32. The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

Arianna Huffington

#33. Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

John Stahl-Wert

#34. Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.

Richelle E. Goodrich