Sentences with phrase «who quarrels»

Lady Bird (****) Funny, touching coming - of - age story about a Sacramento high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) who quarrels with her mother (Laurie Metcalf) about her determination to leave California for a more sophisticated life at an Eastern college.

«Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.

Anyone who quarrels, on whatever grounds, with the possibility of investigating such all - embracing world views is brought up short.

The law of émigré life: those who don't like to quarrel organize balls and can also keep busy — endlessly — reconciling those who quarrel.

Not exact matches

Similarly Jesus rejects the request to settle a quarrel over an inheritance: «Man, who made me a judge or arbiter over you?»

The laziness of those who insist on sitting and «leaving the more strenuous exercises for the others» (Bishop) has led to a quarrel, and in the course of this quarrel the lazy children try to blame the others for spoiling the play - time: «We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.»

And Father was not a man to quarrel much, though with one relative who irritated him he did have something of a quarrel.

His real quarrel was with his fellow Methodists who compromised the older beliefs and practices or, worse, expressed contempt for them.

An Episcopal Church quarrel over the ordination of women, the Book of Common Prayer, who gets the property in separation and the division of memorial gifts.

Mark Edmundson is a professor of literature who has said some interesting things about the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, as well as the larger cultural implications of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

He who meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

He sees his quarrel with Sharon and the Israelis who overwhelmingly elected him as a fight for the «soul, fate and well - being of Israel and all its citizens, Jews and Arabs.»

Kill not the old man who can not fight, nor young children nor women; and steal not the spoils of war, but put your spoils together; and quarrel not amongst yourselves, but be good to one another, for God loveth the doer of good.35

There was constant bickering about spiritual gifts and their proper use, as well as quarrels about money, leaders, and who baptized whom.

My quarrel is with those women who, knowing that they carry within them life by anyone's definition, refuse to confront that fact, insist on pulling the veil of self - regarding ignorance over what they bear, and abort because they are endowed with rights that trump all other rights and interests.

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.

Liberals have a right and an obligation to quarrel with many of the terms and techniques of witness employed by some evangelicals, but evangelicals are correct when they remind us that there is a faith «delivered to the saints,» who in turn are responsible for delivering it to others.

is a mere logicker, fastening on a word as the sole expression and exact equivalent of truth, to go on spinning deductions out of the form of the word (which yet having nothing to do with the idea), then he becomes a one - word professor, quarreling, as for truth itself, with all who chance to go out of his word; and, since words are given not to imprison souls but to express them, the variations continually indulged in by others are sure to render him as miserable in his anxieties, as he is meager in his contents, and busy in his quarrels.

Whether the alternative is a houseful of jealous, quarreling wives, or concubinage with the inferior status of all but the first and legal wife, with the procreation in either case of a bevy of children who can not have adequate parental care, the outcome is bad.

And those who enjoy quarrels quarrel!

Nor are the rulers, who so often quarreled with churchmen to be regarded as the sons of Belial.

If you are interested in stopping the abuses being inflicted on our game - fish populations in the name of sportfishing (we'll have to leave the long - liners and purse seiners and gillnetters to someone with more authority), then you have no real quarrel with stage one (we all have to start someplace) and certainly not with those in stage five, who are the ultimate sportsmen.

Peter Müller, 22, the wildly uncontrolled Swiss racer who won the downhill World Cup last year, is known as an odd and lonesome fellow, given to quarreling with his roommates, yet he loves to collect mushrooms and wants nothing more than to be a gardener when he quits skiing.

Preschoolers who pretend together are less likely than other kids to quarrel or have communication problems (Dunn and Cutting 1999).

They'll quarrel over who broke the rules in a game of duck, duck, goose («You didn't run the right way!»).

If you are faced with some of these problems: lack of affection from your partner, infidelity, constant quarrels, having a partner who is irresponsible and not accommodating.

• A 37 - year - old Orland Park man who became physical with a woman during a quarrel was charged with domestic battery June 13.

He said: «When you come out of a defeat, you need time to heal, and, so, in the aftermath of the defeat, you will have disagreement as to who caused that defeat and that will lead to quarrels amongst you but you've gone through that process we called catharsis, you must put your differences behind and start to look forward the next battle.

Superintendent Nana Kumi said in what appears to be a fight over another man, Mercy Nyamekye, who was supposed to be staying happily with her husband who's the Landlord, started picking quarrels with Amina about a new tenant in the house, whose name was only given as Moses.

If EFCC had been allowed to do its job since 2001 or so, nobody will be quarrelling now, but the fact is the greatest short cut you needed was just to declare for PDP and once you declared for PDP, you were free, but the fact is anybody who had anything to do or say must do it or say it by answering his father's name.

What is important are family relationships, with children who hardly ever talk about important matters with their mothers and often quarrel with them more likely to stay out late.

President Donald Trump, the apostle of America First who has heaped scorn on global institutions, ripped up international agreements and quarreled even with allies, offered a subdued and largely friendly performance on the opening day of his inaugural visit to the United Nations.

This is listed as a western comedy and I guess it did have a funny part or two, but its just a good story, A opera singer comes into town, she is not your typical opera singer by no mean, not big boned, fat or big busted, no this women is beautiful, and two brothers who can't stand each other start a quarrel over her.

He quarrels with his professors, parents, roommates, and even the university's Dean, who all seem to be a step behind the young man as it concerns his logical, secular reasoning.

While local, state and federal law enforcement agents quarrel over jurisdiction, CIA agent Forrest Sorrels (Billy Bob Thornton) and his officers track down clothier Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the man who captured the shooting on his home video camera.

With inspiration from Arlo, a YouTuber who recently made a very well put together video of the current problems of the Paper Mario series; we decided to do a podcast about our quarrels with the Paper Mario series, and what we want in future games!

Any kind of truncation is just empty hubris or, giving Mendes the benefit of the doubt, pandering to those impatient masses who weren't gonna show up anyway (for starters, if the draw is the reunion of Kate & Leo, then I can't think of anything more repellent to a Titanic fan than the thought of their idealized couple quarrelling for two hours), so why not give the faithful what they came for?

But as pressure mounts leading up to opening night, Riggan begins to quarrel with those who love him, question his own talent and... move inanimate objects with his mind.

Elijah Watkins, who recently enrolled in sixth grade at Buffalo's KIPP Sankofa Charter School, has no quarrel with being in class there for three weeks in July.

If the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly affirm charity and compassion and forgiveness are often inclined to take this course), then he or she will not just be quarreling with the unknowable and ineffable creator who — presumably — opted to make me this way.

All quarrels bypass the teachers and are settled by some of the best lawyers in the country... who also happen to be elementary school students.

When I met him he was barely making ends meet in Madrid, hiring himself out for four maravedís in employ of little glory, often as a swordsman for those who had neither the skill nor the daring to settle their own quarrels.

- New York Times Book Review «Who doesn't relish a love story with the right amount of heart - melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling meant - to - be lovers?»

Thousands of readers throughout the world cry over the destiny of young lovers who have sacrificed their lives because their love was not able to overcome the quarrels between their families.

Those writers who are beating the street in traditional, indie, or self - publishing don't have time to quarrel.

It is common to see two siblings (litter mates or not) get into small or big quarrels, trying to figure out who is the more dominant one of the pair.

Male dogs who are fixed will be less «humpy» than those who are not, and that itself will reduce the quarrels that sometimes come about when such behaviors are displayed.

, the Nintendo Wii is just the child in the back of the car, with the parents in the front, quarrelling over who is the better driver, with the child staring out of the window, creating things in its imaginative mind that the parents just can't comprehend.

I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture.

(The accusations currently being played out in court about the alleged blacklist kept by the South African painter Marlene Dumas — preventing collectors who make a quick profit by reselling her works at auction from acquiring more choice works — have all the earmarks of a lover's quarrel.)