Quotes About Strife

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

We can argue about it in hell.

Precious little. Most of the strife I foresee will be on the Sword Coast and its backlands.

In front of him was the bitterness and disappointment in a country that fought them at every turn.

Wars and alarums unto nations wide.

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

Every man's sword was against his fellow.

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

Every man's sword shall be against his brother.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The strength of humility is that it builds a spiritual defense around your soul, prohibiting strife, competition, and many of life's irritations from stealing your peace.

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

The Lord Leto says that when it was denied an external enemy, the all-male army always turned against its own population. Always.

People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Eram máscaras baratas presas a pensamentos supurados: vozes que lutavam para afogar o silencio clamoroso em cada íntimo

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

What's your game?" "I modify the human desire for war." "People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.