Quotes About Conflict

Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist.

Ha oído decir alguna vez aquello tan socorrido de que en el amor y en la guerra está todo permitido, Daniel? -Alvina fez. Normalmente en vocal de Los que están más pot la guerra que poor el amor. -Así es, porque en el fondo es mentira podrida.

Los pueblos no se miran nunca en el espejo, decía siempre el padre de Clara, y menos con una guerra entre las cejas.

Non si sa chi si è davvero finché non si impara a odiare. E quando si odia davvero, quando ci si abbandona alla rabbia che brucia dentro, che consuma lentamente quel po' di buono che si credeva di avere come bagaglio, lo si fa in segreto.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel.

We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides. But that girl has such a temper, you wouldn't believe it... She threatened to leave us and said she'd never come back.

We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides...

Las guerras no tienen memoria y nadie se atreve a comprenderlas hasta que ya no quedan voces para contar lo que pasó, hasta que llega el momento en que no se las reconoce y regresan, con otra cara y otro nombre, a devorar lo que dejaron atrás»

Nunca subestimes el talento para olvidar que despiertan las guerras

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them & they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Time played on the opposite team.

You've had your tantrum. Now come back inside, and we'll talk like civilized people. You don't want to cause a scene in front of the neighbors.

And here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue

I draw on the work of Piaget (1968) in identifying conflict as the harbinger of growth and also on the work of Erikson (1964) who, in charting development through crisis, demonstrates how a heightened vulnerability signals the emergence of a potential strength, creating a dangerous opportunity for growth, a turning point for better or worse (p. 139).

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.

to resolve the dissonance between "I love this person" and "This person is doing some things that are driving me crazy" will enhance their love story or destroy it.

Please, stop this. Leave me alone,' she begged, despising herself for her weakness. 'Oh, please, Leon, leave me alone!' The last came out as a choked sob. He stood up and came to stand in front of her. 'I can't, my cool Helen. You have me tied up in knots. If it's time you want, you've got it, but you have to let me see you, be with you, talk to you.' -Leon & Helen

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

If I were a seagull I wouldn't have to stick around If people argued- I would fly off, swerve, wheel, dip, scream. a thousand wings of company if I have friends two strong wings of my own If I don't

If only she had never stolen Sarah-Charlotte's milk. None of this would have happened.

In a civil war," he said gently, "people forget that they are people. Next they forget anyone else is a person. They forget how to be kind. They learn to hurt. In our wars, they might execute you, but usually they chop hands off, so that you suffer before you die. If you live, you are helpless and must depend on others.

For reasons having largely to do with conflicting political agendas and fourteen centuries of animosity between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, we also have a distorted impression of the teachings of Islam. The fact is that Islamic teachings are based on the same moral and ethical principles that lie at the heart of both Judaism and Christianity.

Una de las mayores fuentes de sufrimiento es traicionarse a uno mismo: sentir o pensar de un modo y actuar de otro, sabiendo perfectamente que estás yendo en contra de ti mismo.

I hear it was the fact that the Brennans had a hellfireanddamnation preacher runnin' their family back in Prohibition days and you Gallaghers were runnin' moonshine to get by and got caught. Your family blamed the Brennans for rattin' you out, and that started a feud, Rosalie said.