Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. — Euripides Copy Share Image
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife. — Saadi Copy Share Image
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey Copy Share Image
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past,… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears… — John Phillips Copy Share Image
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move,… — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image