Quarrels Quotes - Page 17

• One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

  Russell Baker

  Christian, Smell, Hypocrisy

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• The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

  Murray Leinster

  People, Secret, Postponing

  Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC

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• The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

  Dalai Lama

  Suicide, Country, Fighting

  "Dalai Lama laughs off China's criticism" by Rod Mickleburgh, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 8, 2006.

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• The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Cake, Ideas

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• Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

  Harold Arlen

  Music, Air, Arguing

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• 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

  Husband, Lying, Giving

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• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Chinese, Democracy

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• Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Book, Philosophical, Reflection

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• Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.

  Craig Stone

  Running, Silly, Argument

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• There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, People, Ceilings

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• All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Government, Splits, Fool

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.186, Taylor & Francis

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• Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Supremacy, Ends

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

  Francis Bond Head

  Bread, Disputes, Ifs

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• Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

  John McCrae

  Fall, Hands, Memorial Day Poems

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• Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

  George Etherege

  Understanding, Mistress, Next

  1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 1, sc.1.

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• I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

  Rumi

  Heart, Fate, Fighting

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• There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

  Sivananda

  Truth, Views, Different

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• Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Teaching, Devil

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• So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

  Ramakrishna

  Faith, Peace, Flower

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brother, Integrity, Simple

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• The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

  George Washington

  Party, Ideas, Revolution

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• Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

  Gautama Buddha

  Stars, Life Is Short, Rainbow

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

  Elihu Root

  Chance, Life Is, Procedures

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

  Plato

  Parenting, Parent, Ifs

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