#rife

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

— Jesse Owens

#awards #become #born #competition #dust

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#around #becoming #benefit #britain #deal

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ↗

— Washington Irving

#felicity #marriage #strife #three #torment

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#fires #raging #strife #suffering #world

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. ↗

— William Shatner

#blank #character #creative #creative art #ending

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests

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. ↗

— Sam Houston

#bloodshed #bring #civil #constitution #her

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #butter #cigarettes #could #course

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

— Walter Savage Landor

#none #strife #strove #worth