Zitat des Tages über Streitigkeiten / Quarrels:
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
The historic quarrels between Japan and Korea pale in importance to the bigger question of extent of U.S. commitment to the defense of the region.
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.
Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
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 a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.