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Quotes About Clash

Indians are supposed to be silent in the Records written by history's winners, but Shawnees speak from the Records kept by the British, French, Spaniards, and Americans. Shawnee orators explained that for them the struggle for America was not only a contest for resources but also a clash between two ways of life and between two different worldviews. They fought for a different vision of America.
~ Colin Calloway
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
~ Lars von Trier
Every term of opprobrium that Álvares hurled at Magellan strengthened
~ Laurence Bergreen
There was no tune as such, just arrhythmic sequences of harsh intervals and atonalities. It was all clash and dissonance. It was the kind of music, I thought, that would be played in Hell.
~ James Lovegrove
slapped him so hard his head smacked against the window we were standing in front of.
~ James Patterson
and House are enemies….
~ James Patterson
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.
~ Vladimir Putin
Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.
~ James A. Forbes
Miscommunication is endless.
~ J.P. Rattie
For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
~ Thomas Huxley
She was the flint and he the steel. But in continual striking together they only destroyed each other.
~ D. H. Lawrence
God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides - the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds!
~ Walter Scott
She's got ANTAGONIZE written all over her.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Ultimately to say that people all share the same hopes and fears, are all born and love and suffer and die alike, is to say very little. For it is after commonalities are accounted for that politics becomes necessary. It is only when values, ideologies, cultures and interests clash that politics even begins.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Get crossways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand brick has fell on you.
~ Charles Portis
The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.
~ Harry Blamires
[There's] a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us, [and] a public who is no longer content with that arrangement.
~ Heather Brooke
The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.
~ Lemony Snicket
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Non capisci una fava. Celina lifted her chin to him. Tu sei una fava, she shot back. He was the one who didn't know anything.
~ Jan Moran
The result is sometimes an ugly display of old lady bitch slapping.
~ Janet Evanovich
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
~ Michael Novak
In terms of pressure, El Clasico is unique, but also a match against PSG is a stimulating and exciting clash.
~ Raphael Varane
News accounts of the riot would give rise to a story that still lives, that the "Fighting Irish" nickname was forever set by the clash of Notre Dame against the Ku Klux Klan on May 17, 1924.
~ Timothy Egan