Quotes About Conflict

At least in America, you lose your house, you can get it back from the bank. In Israel, you lose it to the rockets.

In contrast to prior generations, conflict is no longer seen as an unavoidable, and perhaps even necessary, component of family life, but rather a referendum on each person: Does my parent limit my potential? My happiness?

Avoid what marital researcher John Gottman refers to as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: defensiveness, criticism, stonewalling, and contempt. Studies show that no marriage can survive a steady diet of those emotions.

Peace is like a rainbow, you can't have a rainbow without a storm and you can't have peace with out war.

No, forget it. You people took the village and drove away all our business, it's you who must submit to Shariah.

In the most heavily bombed part of the country—a high, strategically located plateau in the middle of Laos, called the Plain of Jars, the American bombing runs almost never paused. Of the roughly 150,000 people who lived on the Plain of Jars before the 1960s, only about 9,000 remained at the end of the decade.37 After the war, one-third of the bombs dropped on Laos remained in the ground and undetonated.

I was caught between the crossfire of the atheist school and a Baptist church and family. Both had a prescription for how I was supposed to think and behave. On most points, they actually agreed. I was supposed to be clean, have short hair, talk modestly, listen and obey, never fight. Consequently, I was slovenly, grew long hair, and fought every day.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

The heart is a fist. It pockets prayer or holds rage.

Some days, and this was one, she felt as if bitterness were turning her insides to something like pine knots and sparks, just seconds away from exploding.

I think I upset your father

The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything. Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.

The battle is always between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, is it not? Imagination is not what it's cracked up to be. Sam decided to forget the petty, bourgeois rite of eating food out of another's orifices for a while. He decided to just love Elizabeth instead.

Mr. and Mrs. Muirhead fought continuously and as bitterly as vipers. Their arguments were baroque, stately and, although frequently extraordinary, never enlightening.

That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

I love him," Patty said. "But our dad is a loser.

The last day of April, Hitler killed himself—which was a sure sign the war wasn't going his way.

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.

Era la guerra de una generación desprevenida; y su mayor peligro radicaba precisamente en la fe intacta de los pueblos en la justicia unilateral de su causa

Los dos grupos que hasta ayer se mataban se encuentran a mitad de camino en medio de la desolación, entre embudos cenagosos, cadáveres semienterrados y chatarra bélica oxidada. Alemanes e ingleses se contemplan, astrosos, barbudos, sucios, tan parecidos si no fuera por el uniforme, tan humanos, tan distintos de como los presentan las caricaturas de la propaganda.

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.