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Quotes About Clash

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Marxists, fascism's first victims, were accustomed to thinking of history as the grand unfolding of deep processes through the clash of economic systems. Even before Mussolini had fully consolidated his power, they were ready with a definition of fascism as "the instrument of the big bourgeoisie for fighting the proletariat when the legal means available to the state proved insufficient to subdue them.
~ Robert O. Paxton
But what they fought each other for,I could not well make out.
~ Robert Southey
That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
deck. Gavagan rushed him, getting inside and hitting him with a right to the jaw.
~ Louis L'Amour
arm was seized and he was thrown over Fallon's back with a flying mare. He hit the ground with a thud and Fallon fell upon him, a knee driving into his solar plexus as Fallon came down, then that
~ Louis L'Amour
Two people competed for the position—
~ Ron Chernow
At this, Hamilton dropped any pose of civility and chastised Monroe, saying "your representation is totally false.
~ Ron Chernow
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Nothing attracts a serious duel like an inconclusive one.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.
~ Alfred Bester
In the songs, Angulf Clovenfoot's Gettlanders fell upon the Vanstermen like hawks from an evening sky. Master Hunnan's misfits fell on Rissentoft like a herd of sheep down a steep flight of steps.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You start some trouble, it's best to start it and finish it all at once.
~ Joe Abercrombie
His soul was a steeple in which all the bells had begun to clash at once.
~ Joe Hill
In times of conflict, everyone retreated to their most tribal positions.
~ Joel Shepherd
Play is battle and battle is play.
~ Johan Huizinga
I came not to send peace, but a sword.
~ Anonymous
When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.
~ Anthony de Mello
interests result in direct and indirect opposition.
~ Anthony J. Marsella
If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.
~ Chael Sonnen
When I was younger and I'd get into scraps, someone would throw a punch, but next thing you know it's on the ground.
~ Matt Serra
Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
~ David James Elliott
I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.
~ Nick Hornby