Strife

Famous quotes containing the word strife:

    The day in his hotness,
    The strife with the palm;
    The night in her silence,
    The stars in their calm . . .
    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    The example of America must be the example, not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because it is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)