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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

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart. — Empedocles

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius

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

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved. — Laozi

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. — Anonymous

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

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. — Lao-Tzu

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. — Homer

As long as on the earth endures his life
To 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

Now by the laws of war, better than defeating a country by fire and the sword, is to take it without strife. — Sun Tzu

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 strife
Soon 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

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. — Euripides

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. — Tacitus

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

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband. — Saadi

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

A careless word may kindle strife,
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A timely word may lessen stress,
A loving word may heal and bless. — Anonymous

It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity. — Heraclitus

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. — William Shakespeare

The chinese character for "strife" is represented by two women under the same roof. — Robert Wilson

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

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty. — Ovid

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

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

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

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

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained. — Heraclitus

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

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ... — Ellen Key

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

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? — Virgil

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

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife. — Ivan Panin

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife. — Frank Herbert

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife. — Heraclitus

Passion and strife bow down the mind. — Virgil

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

You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?" "I choose to, — M.L. Stedman

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson

28 a A dishonest man spreads strife, and b a whisperer c separates close friends. — Anonymous

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

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. — J.B. Priestley

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

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.' — Heraclitus

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace. — John Hagee

Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. — John Milton

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

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it. — Aesop

The painter strives and competes with nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci