Quotes About Tension

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.

Play in Ligue 1 is very closed, very aggressive.

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

I'm never comfortable.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

If you conceal things, they become more charged.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

I like conflict in songs.