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Quotes About Conflict

I'm going to kill him. I'm a lawyer. I can keep myself out of jail.
~ Susan Mallery
His brain might know that she was all wrong, but his dick kept pointing in her direction.
~ Susan Mallery
Sorry," he said. "I don't like her. No one in my family does. She's a manipulative bitch who will do anything to get her way." She
~ Susan Mallery
Besides her Zane muttered under his breath. She caught a handful of words. Something about being old, broken bones and a reference to hanging Chase from the lightning rod in the middle of a storm.
~ Susan Mallery
You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet .
~ Susan Mallery
We have to talk. She paused in the act of sweeping up hair from the floor and glanced at him. I don't think so. Maybe I'm here to tell you what you want to hear. You look way too angry for that to be true. I'm guessing you want to threaten me. I don't accept threats during work hours and I'm on the clock for another hour. He swore silently. Jason was right - she had balls. Giant ones.
~ Susan Mallery
I'm not saying I don't have responsibility. I do. I'll take all of it. I'm saying we didn't want to hurt anyone." The smile faded. "Isn't that what criminals always say? So that doesn't work. I suppose I want you to know I'm sorry for the pain you and your family are going through. But I can't be sorry I love Blaine. He's a blessing, and at my age, you get pretty excited by blessings.
~ Susan Mallery
When couples cannot talk about their problems in a healthy way and become entrenched in their opinions, they have the same failed conversations over and over.  The relationship becomes emotionally clogged. Friction and frustration grow. Partners feel rejected, like they can't get through to one another.  Behaviors associated with conflict avoidance include passive aggressive behavior, withdrawal. 
~ Susan Scott
War has been the norm and peace the exception
~ Susan Sontag
Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)
~ Susan Sontag
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato's Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.
~ Susan Sontag
To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.
~ Susan Sontag
The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.
~ Susan Sontag
the war goes on—an ache in the bones, an ache in the gut, an ache in the heart.
~ Susan Sontag
SavaÅŸ fotoÄŸraflar?nda güzellik görmek, kalpsizlikle eÅŸ anlaml? say?lmaktad?r.
~ Susan Sontag
To talk about camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves.
~ Susan Sontag
Who believes today that war can be abolished? No one, not even pacifists.
~ Susan Sontag
I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.
~ Susan Sontag
Hakk?n ve hakl?l???n bir tarafta, bask? ve adaletsizliÄŸin diÄŸer tarafta yer ald???na ve kavgan?n sürdürülmesi gerektiÄŸine inananlar aç?s?ndan önemli olan, tam da kimin, kim taraf?ndan öldürüldüÄŸüdür.
~ Susan Sontag
Esto es lo que hace la guerra. Y aquello es lo que hace, también. La guerra rasga, desgarra. La guerra rompe, destripa. La guerra abrasa. La guerra desmembra. La guerra arruina.
~ Susan Sontag
So, on top of the betrayal, I got to feel ashamed. I got to hate myself, when the rage of Medea would have served me better; but I was ever a stranger to rage.
~ Susan Spano
The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.
~ Susan Vreeland
What I want to do and what I have to do are always fighting each other like alley cats.
~ Susan Vreeland
a fight was never about the thing being fought over.
~ Susan Wiggs