Squabbles Quotes

• The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

  Anton Chekhov

  Fire, Hatred, Literature

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• 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.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Friendship, Eagles

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Life, Art, Doors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black

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• Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

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• Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Winter, Lone Wolf

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.196, Bantam

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• As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

  Joo Won

  Want, Protect, Tension

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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• 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

  Sibling, Fighting, Acting

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• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Astrology, Heaven

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Dog, Sex, Sleep

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• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Fighting, Reality

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  War, Eagles, Giants

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Jobs, Party

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• The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Space, Safety

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• 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 J. Nock

  Long, Goes On, Matter

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• Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

  Anne Frank

  Children, Real, Differences

  Anne Frank (2001). “Diary Of A Young Girl”, p.59, Penguin Books India

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• 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

  Children, Taken, Years

  "PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter James Carroll, 1996.

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• 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

  Running, Horse, Believe

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

  Lou Gehrig

  Daughter, Mother, Law

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Dupes, Flattery

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Campaigns, Ugly, Messy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Grief, Struggle

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• The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

  Joyce Brothers

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• 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

  Baby, Party, Play

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