Strife Quotes
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Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
— Rose Bird
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
— Heraclitus
I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.
— Robin Hobb
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
— Alexander Pope
For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity - and that way usually is external strife.
— Peter Farb
There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
— Menachem Begin
All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
— William Shakespeare
Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,His only answer was, a blameless life. — William Cowper
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
As long as on the earth endures his lifeTo deal with him have full and free permission;
Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.
— Damien Echols
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
— Washington Irving
With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.
— Thomas Browne
Coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain.
— Will Durant
I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.
— Lawrence Wright
Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.
— Bertrand Russell
I sit in the lap of Adversity and nuzzle at her neck." Personal philosophy associated with the strife and difficulties of life.
— Stephen C. Conley
Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
— John Henry Newman
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
— Kahlil Gibran
All things pass ... Patience attains all it strives for.
— Teresa Of Avila
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
— Susan Vreeland
Without making the actual attempt, without trial and strife, there can be no true knowledge, no progress, no high achievement, and no legend.
— Brendon Burchard
Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strifeSoon taught the sweet civilities of life. — John Dryden
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
— Heraclitus
The tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
— Agnes Repplier
I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
— Van Morrison
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
— Marcel Proust
War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife. — William Shakespeare
We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Multiplicity without strife is joy.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Better a dry crust of bread with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
— King David
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
— William Shakespeare
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
— Walter Scott
Rest is sweet after strife.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
— Izaak Walton
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
— William Shakespeare
Once you backslide, strife will enter your life
— Sunday Adelaja
As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.
— Erik Larson
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
— William Wordsworth
By its very nature, the dark side invites rivalry and strife. This is the greatest strength of the Sith: it culls the weak from our order.
— Drew Karpyshyn
Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.
— Phar West Nagle
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
— Barack Obama
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
— Mason Cooley
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
— Michael Moorcock
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
— Aristotle.
Where there is always striving, always there is strife as well. Sometimes to be in one place is good. To be still." Leif
— Susan Fanetti
Polygamy causes a lot of strife
— Yoshiko Sakurai
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
— William Cowper
Wit and judgment often are at strife.
— Alexander Pope
This forced league doth force a further strife.
— William Shakespeare
Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
— Frank Herbert
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
— Tertullian
What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,
— Paul Verlaine
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
A wife can give you strife. A wife can act like a knife, and a wife can help you have a good life. And the same goes for husbands.
— Art Hochberg
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
— Charles Dickens
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
— Herodotus
There is no advance without strife.
— Philip Wylie
May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
— Keisha Keenleyside
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
— Alice Meynell
With ills unending strives the putter off.
— Epictetus
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
— Anne Hutchinson
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
— James Hervey
The painter strives and competes with nature.
— Leonardo Da Vinci