Quotes About Conflict

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

I've gotten myself into some difficult situations because I couldn't say no.

Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.

I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

I love skateboarding and rollerblading, but I'm not really allowed to do it because of my tennis.

Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.

The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.