I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown – except for when men misnomer ‘confident’ with ‘poised’ and ‘passionate’ with ‘feisty.’ I work hard.
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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.
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That’s one way to think about borders – they’re trouble.
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
I’m very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don’t agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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