We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self- will, more than of reason or even of self-interest.... Even in the common ...transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral:... In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originall...y to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so they... don't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, ...and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 e...ndlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;... But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »