Quarrels Quotes

319 Quarrels quotes by 246 unique authors

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. — Andre Gide
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them. — Benjamin Franklin
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention… — Howard Zinn
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that… — Thomas Browne
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on… — John Owen
I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to… — John Templeton
There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities… — Albert Sorel
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be,… — Rudolf Virchow
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children. — Arthur Compton
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order… — Derren Brown
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the… — Mignon McLaughlin
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. — Walter Benjamin
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it. — Ned Rorem
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… — Oscar Wilde
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye

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