Quotes About Strife

Die Wurzel des Übels lag in der verworrenen und ruhelosen Natur des Menschen mit ihren edlen wie mit ihren bösen Zügen: dem Streben nach Freiheit, Ruhm oder Herrschaft. Weltherrschaft, Wohlstand und persönlicher Ehrgeiz hatten die Republik lange zuvor zugrunde gerichtet.

enquanto a segurança precisar de uma fechadura, e a boa fé precisar de um tabelião — os homens lutarão de reino a reino, como de pessoa a pessoa.

Your planet does not deal gently with lovers of peace.

For thousands of years, human beings have chosen to settle their differences by obliterating one another. And when we are not obliterating one another, we spend an enormous amount of time and attention coming up with better ways to obliterate one another the next time around. It's all a little strange, if you think about it.

Your wife is your life. Don't let strife thrive in your union.

That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

My heart was acting like a prisoner in the Tower of London, banging against the walls. I had to hold my hand against it. I was afraid it would escape.

So I guess you're the new neighbors," said Zander. "Well, see you." He strode up the walk to his house and let himself inside, the screen door slamming behind him. "He thinks he's so great," muttered Abby, and strode into her own house.

How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!

Americans' "fatal tendency of disunion.

What use was war without also love?

THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind? MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.

Nichts Bessers weiß ich mir an Sonn- und Feiertagen Als ein Gespräch von Krieg und Kriegsgeschrei, Wenn hinten, weit, in der Türkei, Die Völker auf einander schlagen.

And blood in torrents pourIn vain—always in vain,For war breeds war again.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

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

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Superpowers lecture world peace by guns, bombs, distinctions, and injustice; consequently, flames of hatred spread and turn into invisible terror; thus, peace suicides in the lap of such powers before it prevails and fragrances.