Strife Quotes

• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  Sam Houston

  Texas, Names, Civil War

  Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”

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  Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Friendship, Basketball, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

  Jean Paul

  Memories, Loss, Men

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• Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

  Edgar Cayce

  Encouraging, Wise, Wisdom

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• I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Sadness, Interesting, Upbeat

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• I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

  Ricky Williams

  Pain, Thinking, People

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• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Quarrels

  "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. 1 (1853)

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• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Past, Needs

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Support, Collaboration

  "Tim Gunn’s Advice for Making It Work". Interview with Tara Parker-Pope, well.blogs.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cruel is the strife of brothers.

  Aristotle

  Brother

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 23: "Brothers Hotchner", www.imdb.com. May 22, 2013.

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• A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

  Robert E. Lee

  Love, Kindness, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.116, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

  Gijs de Vries

  Military, Rights, Lawlessness

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• 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Army, Soldier, Navy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Passion and strife bow down the mind

  Virgil

  Passion, Mind, Bows

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• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Blood, Europe

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• When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Enlightening

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Rain, Writing

  Song: Story Of A Life, 1980

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• Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Struggle, Fall, Love Is

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

  Herodotus

  War, Evil, Effort

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• The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Adventure, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

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• 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

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  Sam Houston

  Texas, Bloodshed, Texan

  Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”

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• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Learning, Wish

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.494

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