Zitat des Tages über Streit / Quarrel:
In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.
I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don't have time to quarrel.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
