Quotes About Quarrel

I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

None was more quarrelled with by men, than he that came to take up the great quarrel between God and man.

Orion loved argument just as much as I did, and we would shout at each other; quarrel violently, and continue to like each other. During

Propaganda, if too raucous, will always prove counterproductive. The damage arises because in peacetime the nation that never stops menacing others and shouting grievances is at once labelled a disturber of the peace and blamed accordingly. Such behaviour is also stupid because it continually remind others of the quarrel and strengthens their opposition.

But you just said, we quarrel. I suppose it's like when two grannies have a dispute, and the villagers constantly whisper in their ears about the wickedness of the other one. If the grannies want to have any peace, they have to forget everyone else and remember that they used to be friends.

I'll tell you also other things, so as to teach you knowledge. Such as; if a quarrel breaks out,do not approach the contenders! If you are chided and don't know how to repel the heat, call the listeners to witness and delay the answer.

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.

You can only quarrel with someone whom you share almost everything in common or a similar person.

A piety that sees death as the moment of "going home at last," the time when we are "called to God's eternal peace," has no quarrel with power-mongers who want to carve up the world to suit their own ends.

We desire and love and hate and quarrel and deceive and weep – and in a short while we're gone and our lives leave no trace, and all those tears and all that laughter might never have happened.

Politics you should banish absolutely—if people are not of one mind about them they are sure to quarrel over them; if they are of one mind no subject can be drearier.

Jack loudly protested against such literal interpretation of his figurative language, and a very pretty bout with fisticuffs was the result,—the innocent kettle ultimately being battered to pieces in the fray. Such is men's justice; in all their quarrels there is always some poor luckless kettle which, sinless itself, gets the blows from each side

Rousseau alienated his aristocratic patrons; he quarrelled with most of his friends and well-wishers, including Hume and Diderot, many of whom also ended up deriding him as a madman. But he disagreed most violently – and productively – with Voltaire.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaacís herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”

These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”

To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Donít they come from the passions at war within you?