Dueling Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dueling Manners Might Practice Should
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Arthur had never challenged a man to a duel, but in this moment he understood the magnificent reasonableness of the tradition. It was either… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as not, though,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it. — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code. — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on… — Otto Skorzeny Copy Share Image
“At the top of the Palisades in Weehawken, New Jersey is a small park known as the Dueling Grounds. This Revolutionary War site, overlooking… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as not, though,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one… — Herbert Asbury Copy Share Image
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Eena!” Recognizing Ian’s voice, Eena turned to find him approaching her from behind. He was entirely clad in body armor and gauntlets, cradling an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“In your rare embrace, sometimes I am lost nowadays. In these years, you have changed. I have changed. Every single day, we’re fighting our… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
