Quotes About Conflict

Man is a wolf to man.

Non si resta perché si amano certe persone; si va via perché se ne detestano altre. Sono sempre le cose brutte che ci fanno agire. Siamo vigliacchi.

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

We may have heaven and hell in us, but we choose who we are. And who we fight.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Never forget, the greatest battle we'll ever face is the battle within ourselves.

Throughout the long four years of the Civil War, more Americans will die than in any other war in the nation's history—in fact, more Americans will die in the Civil War than in every other war combined from the American Revolution through the Korean War, including both World Wars. On average, nearly 3,500 lives are lost every week

PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal's, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly hijacked planes full of fuel into buildings. Plain and simple, they're cowards. They won't confront anyone on a one-to-one basis. They don't have the savvy or the courage to do in-your-face operations.

yours, Rob," she replied. "Damn it, Gretchen," he said. "This is how it works. I can't always give you all the information." "Well you could have given us more." The statement hung in the air between them for several moments. Finally, Hutton relented, "I don't have all of the pieces

Scot Harvath wasn't trying to hide. He expected to be seen. That was the plan. Be brief. Be bloody. Be gone. There would be handwringing by the Austrians, of course. But the politics of the assignment weren't his concern. The White House had been crystal clear. Either the Europeans dealt with their problem, or the United States would

Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.

He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.

Our enemy is not merely spiritual.

At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight.

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have.

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.)

Two memories. Two bright minds which remember past events differently. It is an awkward situation. There exists no third person to say which of us is correct.

I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world.

Che errore pensare all'odio come qualcosa che infiamma. E' l'amore che arde, l'odio può soltanto raggelare.

Felicity glanced at him, then looked out toward the lane again. 'Why did you hit Mr. Fields?' That was a question he preferred not to answer until he'd thought his motivations over more thoroughly - yet he was familiar enough with Lis to know she'd insist on an answer. 'He...insinuated some things I didn't appreciate.' 'Some things that were true, perhaps?' ... 'Yes.' 'Then why-' 'If he knew me, or cared in the least, he wouldn't have said them. Quin didn't.

You want Felicity. And you're trying to buy her.' Deerhurst shoved him backward. 'What if I am? How is that different from you keeping a place you don't want just so you can hang about her? I've seen how you look at her.' Rafe shoved back, hard enough to send the earl staggering against the wall. 'Don't start something you won't be conscious for at the finish.

What terrible things would she say to me, would I say to her, that we take such great care not to say anything important at all?