Quotes About Conflict

I understand the risks associated with being a soldier. But I think as members of Congress, we should not intensify the chance that we'll have to commit troops to a military conflict unless it's absolutely necessary to defend the nation.

Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

I realised that I could either fight and get into trouble on the street or I could fight and get paid in the ring. I chose the ring.

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.

It is a troubled soul that forces the human being to act. It is some kind of gangrene within you, inside of you, that eats your soul, that forces you to save your soul.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.

The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.