Strife Quotations

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.

Regardless of all the strife in this field and our complaining incessantly about national policy, and despite some recent events that have cast a shadow on this work, there's a great deal of excitement in this field.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

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

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

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.

You have turned that young girl, who was a perfect angel just a few days ago, into your accomplice. You are a wicked person. You are causing absolute strife in here and you've inveigled that young girl into your wicked spell.

This one appealed to me, ... My mom, before she passed, lived in a nursing home. It created great strife and guilt.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

There's no strife in this locker room, nothing that's going to provide any distractions. And that's the most important thing right now.

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

Stoking the fire of sectarian discord and civil strife will be a calamity for all,

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.

In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations.

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

In this audition scene, she is forced to face the hard reality that all her talents mean little -- unless she is prepared to do jungle numbers. Although we deal with the racial strife of the period, the show is primarily concerned with Josephine's journey as an artist and a woman. It's very much an entertainment filled with romance and humor, and not a polemic.

In this shadow of unconscionable strife and infamy, we come here today to shed light, ... We dedicate ourselves to this hallowed ground such that they may never be forgotten, and their lives may not have been given in vain.

Being in a position where we now have a backstop that can support us up to towards $1 million if we get into financial strife comes as a great relief.

Cambodia is now a fully integrated country without rebels or separatists and without internal strife or conflict for the first time in many decades.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

He proved that it can be done without causing civil strife and he paved the way for his heir to go on with it.

Waight and measure take away strife.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.

There is no advance without strife.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...

America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

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

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

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

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

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

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.

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

God helps him who strives hard.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

With ills unending strives the putter off.

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!