Margaret Deland Quotes

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

Even when the views are contradictory, talks are the only way forward and problems should be resolved through dialogue.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

I never take my own side in a quarrel.

See, I don't want brothers shooting. I want them talking.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

They benefit from all these people, "I just don't like the fighting. Could you stop the shouting? All I want to do is just get along." They're easily able to bulldoze large groups of people into laying down and letting it happen in the hope that this will be peace, in the hope that there will be no confrontations, in the hope that the shouting will stop.