Wrangling Quotes

• Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, America, Liberty

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.15

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• My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

  Ree Drummond

  Children, Nuts, Jeans

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• Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

  Rumi

  Desire, One Love, Thousand

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

  Bill Vaughan

  Views, Months, Constitution

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• There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.

  James Norton

  Falling In Love, Military, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.

  Bill Mallonee

  Song, Prayer, Dark

  "Out of the High Deserts: An Interview with Critically Acclaimed Songwriter, Bill Mallonee". Interview with Matt Litton, mattlitton.com.

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• A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Husband, Air, Practice

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• As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker.

  George W. Bush

  Team, Humor, Florida

  "Bush, Cheney, Powell Meet at Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas". www.cnn.com. November 30, 2000.

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• Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mean, Simple, Race

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• I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, America, Presidential

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• As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

  George Herbert

  Stupid, Taken, Science

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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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