Quotes with strife

  • Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
  • There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lawana Blackwell If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Aristotle Cruel is the strife of brothers.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Walter Savage Landor I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Anthony Weiner It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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  • Washington Irving Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Barack Obama Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bhagat Singh Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Conrad There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bhagat Singh We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Lao-Tzu When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Thomas Fuller When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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