Strife Quotes

Asked to pay tribute to troops fighting in Iraq: "I know it`s a difficult time for you to come out to party during such a time of strife in our world. My feeling is that I hope everyone will be safe and protected and taken care of, and our prayers are with the people around the world who will be affected by this."

Take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period and a better production.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Through him wickedness shall be overcome, hatred, enmity, strife, poverty, and war abolished. This will be accomplished only by a slow but never-failing process of changing men`s mental and spiritual attitude.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

Cambodia is now a fully integrated country without rebels or separatists and without internal strife or conflict for the first time in many decades.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

We condemn all those who are trying to create a turmoil in Lebanon, our brother Lebanon. We hope that the Lebanese people will remain united and strong in these critical moments, denouncing any internal strife and rejecting any foreign intervention.

I think if they were any better, if they had held onto the ball a couple of times, we could have been in strife. Our defense was brilliant.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.