Quotes About Clash

I mean, who doesn't love one-on-one match-ups?

You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich. That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream? Of course I was the cream. Sha.--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)

Oh, love is a journey with water and stars, with drowning air and storms of flour: love is a clash of lightnings, two bodies subdued by one honey.

Meaning that history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' Ã¢â'¬Â He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie had never thought of it that way.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is, he tries, when philosophizing, to sink the fact of his temperament…Yet his temperament really gives him a stronger bias than any of his more strictly objective premises.

How societies often clash before seeing a common humanity in each oher... How earnest, well- intentioned heroes can often succumb to temptations of power... How failing to take responsability for mistakes of the past can lead to calamity in the present...

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

And the contrast between our families hit me like a King James Version falling from the sky.

Two armies fighting each other are like one big army that commits suicide.

For Sun Tzu, victory is not simply the triumph of armed forces. Instead, it is the achievement of the ultimate political objectives that the military clash was intended to secure.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

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Every great movie has conflict.

They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace—that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.