Quarrels Quotes - Page 13

• There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Lying, Humanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.716, Routledge

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• Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Order, Black

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.271, Faber & Faber

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, Military, War

  Attributed to Thomas Carlyle in "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", essay by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, War, Men

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.87

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• A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Dragons, Silence

  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.2136, Bantam

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• There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

  Charles Dickens

  Party, Two, Spite

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.439

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• writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

  James Lee Burke

  Art, Love You, Writing

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• I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, War, Vengeance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.173

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• I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Mistake, May, Excuse

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• The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

  Aesop

  Anger, Opportunity, Rage

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.122, GENERAL PRESS

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• You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.

  Joan Aiken

  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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• Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  War, Groups, Elements

  Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.259, Routledge

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• Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

  Edward Abbey

  Couple, Needs, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Risk, Bearing Witness

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• To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Team Building, Cost

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.131, Crown Business

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• We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

  Antisthenes

  Marriage, Arise, Bridal

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• I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

  Eva Gabor

  Tombstone, Love You, Vermont

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• The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Trying, Argument

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 4, sc. 3

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• I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

  Lawrence James

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

  Alain Badiou

  Giving Up, Real, Adventure

  Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books

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• Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his blazing sword, was between Tessa and both ladies. "We have no quarrel with you, Shadowhunter, unless you choose to pick one. You have invaded our territory and broken the Covenant Law in doing so. We could report you to the Clave-" "While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly, they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way," Will said

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Views, Law

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Unkind Words, Diana

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.605, e-artnow

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Money, War

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.331, e-artnow

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• So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

  George Orwell

  Football, Children, Home

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