A Contentious Woman Quotes & Sayings

A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof. — Francine Rivers

All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong". — Howard S. Becker

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture. — Horst Faas

I imagined you with rapt admiration,
Especially when I first saw you on my life station. — Ritika Chhabra

You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn't to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he's refusing isn't trickery. — Melissa Marr

Anger had arrived and it was riding a big furious don't-fuck-with-me horse. — Lucy Robinson

Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories. — Jose Andres

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs. — P.D. Ouspensky

On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous. — Edward Teller

If some mystical occurrences happen to us, don't we "normally" and fearfully prefer to call them strange coincidences? Or try to persuade ourselves it was only an indication of our overactive imagination? Aren't we "normally" closing our eyes and ears, refusing to face the truth? — Sahara Sanders

first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment... — Dave Duncan

In the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting — Will Schwalbe

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. — Karl Lagerfeld

Tell your children your mother was a woman who, with all her multitude of shortcomings, was more ferocious than kind, more contentious than agreeable, more irate than placid; but who cherished her family above all else. — Kathleen Kent

PRO21.19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. — Anonymous

Jesus came humbly as a servant, but He never begs us to give Him some small part of ourselves. He commands everything from His followers. — Francis Chan

Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value. — Donald A. Norman

For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing tic-tac-notecard, trying to get the stories in an order whereby stories that are similar in any given way (diction, narrative stance, setting, plot) are separated by others that aren't. — Roy Kesey

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. — William Law

9Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman. — Anonymous