Quotes About Conflict

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.

We've about come to the end of the line in this friendly enemies routine. Fair warning.

Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Well, don't worry about it too much, princess. Let ice-boy cool off for the night and then try to talk to him tomorrow. He wont stay angry with you too long, I bet. Ash isn't one to hold a grudge. '' ''What are you talking about? He's held a grudge against you for centuries!'' ''Oh, right.

jerk'jrk
1 an ex-wife or ex-husband who continually annoys you with stupid, irrational, and immature behavior 2 one whose values differ so dramatically from yours that you wonder how you will ever make it through your child's lifetime

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

She was in me, in my blood, invading every cell in my body. She was the one I wanted. She was the one I saw, felt, desired. This was wrong. He was wrong. It was all so wrong.

He makes me feel all jiggly inside. STOP FEELING. Stop caring.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Strange, Andras thought, that war could lead you to involuntarily forgive a person who didn't deserve forgiveness, just as it might make you kill a man you didn't hate.

There was a man of the cloth—Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church—who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit—fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle—who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.

Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.

Discussion was always an unpopular option, leading as it did to calumny, stalemate, lamentation, and wrath.

Il en fut de [la] guerre [de sécession] comme de toutes les guerres. Les civils se haïssent, les soldats se battent. Seuls les civils demeurent irréconciliables.

The object is that which is objected against me.

wanting to replace him, but not wanting to because of his love for him. It would also have involved an identification with what Freud imagined it would be like to face death.

Jonakin päivänä, Catherine sanoi kylmästi, – lankeatte vielä polvillenne eteeni pyytäen anteeksi sanojanne, Arnaud de Montsalvy, Chataignerin herra. Mutta ette saa minulta anteeksiantoa ettekä armoa.

nos queríamos en una dialéctica de imán y limadura, de ataque y defensa, de pelota y pared.

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are worth while but it hurts

La historia es una increíble cantidad de manotazos por todos lados, algunos agarran la manija y otros se quedan con los dedos en el aire, pero cuando sumás el todo por ahí te da la revolución francesa o el Moncada.