Where there is no strife there is decay: The mixture which is not shaken decomposes. From LearnThat.org. [Heraclitus (c.540-c.475 BC)]
I have stolen through life, and my death in strife. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The dreadful in strife, and the matchless in speed. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
Where the strife is for conquest, — not for wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of Geneva] Reference
Scandinavia, appears King Etzel (Attila) in strife with the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Just follow the rules; compromise will only result in strife!. From Wordnik.com. [Democrats' late night session falls short on MI, FL delegations] Reference
Sometimes famish'd unto madness, fierce as wolves that shriek in strife. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Magellan] Reference
The only strife is that it doesn't hold its shape too well but that okay. From Wordnik.com. [My First Job & Red Velvet Cupcakes] Reference
Such a scene of mortal strife from the fire of fifty men was never witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
I wish I could email you somehow privately as my guest who causes strife is my mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Formal Home] Reference
(Therefore, holding a belief, religious or otherwise, places one in strife with scientific reason.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
I would not have cared if I had killed him in strife – but in cold blood, and he so unsuspicious of his doom!. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
How do we advance liberal or progressive ideas if the only response to political strife is to move further to the right?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Red Cross financial aid Scott Brown voted to kill now assisting Massachusetts relief efforts in Haiti.] Reference
Pretending that most Americans have even the slightest clue about the current details of the strife is way, way off the mark. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » American Public Prepared to Support Israel in Endless War With Arabs] Reference
Friends, our strife is by no means over: though we may hope that the great battles are all fought, our perils are far from past. From Wordnik.com. [The Humble Conqueror: A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Services of Abraham Lincoln.] Reference
I don't think that raising this, along with the consequence of increasing sectarian strife, is necessarily an example of scientism. From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins, Hussein, and ALF] Reference
Gentlemen, all strife is loss, not only for employers but employees, and the sooner that is realized throughout the world the better. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Conditions in the Homeland] Reference
Lyrical but not overwritten, the novel creates an unflinchingly clear picture of a country whose history of strife is still being written. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasted Vigil: Summary and book reviews of The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam.] Reference
Only strife is that I think the vanilla glaze tastes a little too powdered sugary or fake, next time I'll try flavoring it a little better!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
There's joy in the strife, that is war to the knife. From Wordnik.com. [In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula] Reference
The victor in the strife was a most determined old man. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference
The arrival of the guards put an end to the vain strife. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
The flattery and the strife, which is the reading of 1843. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
What’s taken as strife is just the process of radical change happening. From Wordnik.com. [Us versus Them] Reference
Rick’s answer mostly just the word strife makes me think of “Gonads and strife”. From Wordnik.com. [Meet the Flockers’ Pets: Kitten A & Kitten B | clusterflock] Reference
It was a strong man grappling with disease and death, and the strife was a fearful one. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference
The occasions for offence are too numerous, and the way into strife is too short and easy. From Wordnik.com. [Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things] Reference
Consider the problem of ethnic and sectarian strife, which is endemic to so many modern societies. From Wordnik.com. [How Not to Save the World] Reference
Those that challenge are chargeable with that beginning of strife, which is as the letting forth of water. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
(DRC) between renegade general Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army, saying that at present the strife is a Congolese matter. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But there are the ladies and poor little May; it is of them I always think when the idea of strife and bloodshed suggests itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific] Reference
This leads to constant protest and strife, which is hardly conducive to 'positive, practical struggle' and 'constructive thinking'. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
We don't want that kind of strife breaking up the team. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: C'mon. Teachers are professionals.] Reference
They protect their families from the kind of strife the Schiavo family endured. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Coombs Lee: At the Threshold of Equality and Freedom] Reference
Whatever the case was, we would usually end up on some kind of strife Sunday morning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2005] Reference
How concerned are you that there could be this kind of strife developing within Israel?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2005] Reference
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