Quotes About Conflict

he would be met not only with the united strength of the Arab countries but also with strong opposition from the Soviet Union and all peace-loving peoples.

Israel owed some measure of its success to the Arabs, to their hostility that helped galvanize an otherwise factious society.

Michael B. Oren

Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.

The Browns were holding a council of war in the dining room, and Mr. Brown was fighting a losing battle.

Don't duh me! Puck snapped. Trying to figure out what you're thinking from one day to the next takes more brains than I have. Well, maybe you should stop. I'd hate to burn out that little peanut in your head.

Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!

Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering and death, our culture adheres to its ideas in spite of ample, clear evidence they will lead to suffering and death.

He nodded then cocked his head and gave me a sharp, policeman like look, as though realizing that he had been on the wrong page with me all along. I fell under the heading of Dealing with Assholes.

In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling, laborious business of backing itself into a horrible war.

The other fellow was more of a fireplug, broad in the chest and shoulders, with a wide pugnacious face and the hint of a shadow even on his freshly shaved jaw. He always looked as if he had not dressed for work that morning so much as gotten into some kind of altercation with his suit, shirt, and tie.

It seemed to me that there were an awful lot of things she had loved about this man with whom she was not in love.

His heart smack[ed] against his ribs like a bumblebee at a window.

All the evil in the world derives from the actions of men acting in a mass against other masses of men.

It's an angry world," Bosch said.

He believed that war brought out the true character in a person, good or bad. He had no sympathy for Banks or the others.

Somebody once called the media the merchants of chaos.

It didn't matter what war was fought, coming back home was another battle altogether.

What about your play, Terry? Pushing past the little brother into the office. Like you didn't think that would start some shit. You pushed the action with that little move and you know it.

He had always known that he would be lost without his job and his badge and his mission. In that moment he came to realize that he could be just as lost with it all. In fact, he could be lost because of it. The very thing he thought he needed the most was the thing that drew the shroud of futility around him.

would have to reveal to Emily the rift that had

The message was clear. It didn't matter what war was fought, coming back home was another battle altogether. He

dañaba su causa porque estaba dando al enemigo un rostro y aumentando la rabia y la resolución de América.

mejor manera de no tener problemas es no darlos. —Eso es mentira y lo sabe. —No, no lo sé.