Squabble Quotes

#1. People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

Gillian Flynn

#2. Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!

Bisco Hatori

#3. There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

Joy-Ann Reid

#4. Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.

Max Allan Collins

#5. Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.

Jon Katz

#6. It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

Hippolyte Taine

#8. If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly.

Andy Andrews

#9. I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

Dorothy Parker

#10. He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."

Pico Iyer

#11. As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts.

Gregory Maguire

#12. It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Albert Jay Nock

#13. The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Winston Churchill

#14. When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

Alveda King

#15. Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

Terry Pratchett

#16. There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

Nigel Scullion

#17. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

Eden Robinson

#18. Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Michel Foucault

#19. It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.

David Quammen

#20. I don't squabble a lot, but everyone has a bad day.

Toby Emmerich

#21. All that I know is that I believe in
the sound of music and the
running of a horse. all else is
squabble.

Charles Bukowski

#22. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that.

Joe Abercrombie

#23. The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal and Squabble.
Or else, get drunk. America knows no other devices to enable its inhabitants to endure either their own company or that of their fellow-creatures.

Aleister Crowley

#24. I'll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.

J.M. Synge

#25. It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

Peter J. Carroll

#26. She would never comprehend the need to hurt those who never hurt her, the need to hate for the sake of hating. She never wanted to rule over others in fear. No, she would never understand the Jabberwocky.

Christina Henry

#27. Habit is the great flywheel of society.

William James

#28. Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

H.L. Mencken

#29. If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Marilyn Monroe

#30. When you get lost in a really strange place,
nothing is more comforting than found your
friend whom you trust and can show the way.

Toba Beta

#31. I love you, Rachel." "I know." She smiled and ducked down to kiss along my jaw. "And I love you too." One

Molly McAdams

#32. I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding.

John Glenn

#33. To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Kevin DeYoung

#34. Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

Shaquille O'Neal

#35. Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

Mel Torme