Tina Brown

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

American Editor

Frank Peretti

When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.

American Author

Rachel Blanchard

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

Canadian Actress

Jeff Van Drew

It is unacceptable for the men and women who protect us to be treated like second class citizens over partisan bickering.

American Politician

Pete Hoekstra

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

Ted Cruz

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

Nikki Bella

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

American Athlete

Xavier Becerra

Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

Kim Zolciak-Biermann

My health is more important than arguing and bickering with people.

American Celebrity

Lou Barlow

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

American Musician

Use 'bicker' when the argument is about something minor, not serious issues.

Trivial Matters

'Bicker' often implies repetitive or chronic arguing over time.

Ongoing Arguments

Bickering is usually not intensely confrontational or aggressive.

Not Aggressive

Use 'bicker' for arguments about very small and unimportant issues, not big disagreements.

Petty Disputes

'Bicker' can indicate underlying issues in relationships when it happens too often.

Relationships

Continuous bickering can create a tense and unpleasant environment for others.

Uncomfortable Atmosphere

 agree to divide the money evenly every single time. Boring. It's just not interesting neurally. It's good for them -- they make a lot of money. But we're interested Can we say something about when disagreements occur versus don't occur? So this is the other group of subjects, who often disagree. They bicker and disagree and end up with less money.

When you're making a...

 it was all the setup before that it was the fact that we had been in his life for five years you know that we had we were trusted that we had never done anything you know for them not to trust us that we were that we were part of the family and that when we got in the middle of that and the brothers are bickering and fight and they let us in

Thom Beers on the State...

 is even when they form the most prosaic reason like armored stockyards miracles happen when smart people connect and are able to learn from each other cities have been producing chains of collaborative creativity since Plato and Socrates Vicco bickered on an Athenian street corner and so it was in Chicago

It’s time to embrace our...

 And the people in relationships where they feel they really can't count on the other one, those are the people who experience earlier memory decline. And those good relationships, they don't have to be smooth all the time. Some of our octogenarian couples could bicker with each other day in and day out,

Robert Waldinger: What...

 and was quickly squashed. Nothing was working. The musketeers huddled and formulated a plan. They would attack in sequence, but who should go first? They bickered for a while, the dragon ate a few more princesses, and then they finally agreed.

How to defeat a dragon...

 Like the critical speculation and maddening plot, their language often goes in circles as the two bicker and banter, lose their train of thought, and pick up right where they left We could start all over again perhaps That should be easy

Why should you read...

 And she pointed at the prison officers and the jury and she said, "And they are family. But families bicker and fight, but we've got to sort it out. And we've got to find a way." So how do we sort it out and when?

Racism thrives on...

 Whether she’s describing bickering families, quiet declarations of love, or juicy gossip,

The wicked wit of Jane...

 the bickering vultures have abandoned the carcass it's a valuable discovery for the