The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was:… — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“It is very painful to argue with an incredibly ignorant person. Not because they are stupid, but because the stupid are unbelievably… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that… — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[attempts to save the relationship on the phone but said the wrong word while talking] It didn't come out right, but I… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping… — Ricardo Flores Magon Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to… — William III of England Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even… — David Weber Copy Share Image
It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image