Quotes About Conflict

seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

Ich blickte den Revolver an, und der Revolver blickte mich an.

Leave the gun out of it. I can always hear the sound of money.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

Tengo una guerra en marcha con la Warner. Tengo una guerra en marcha con el jardinero. Tengo una guerra en marcha con un hombre que vino a arreglar el tocadiscos y arruinó dos discos LP. Tengo varias guerras en marcha con gente de la televisión. A ver quién más… oh, no importa. Usted ya conoce a Chandler. Siempre peleando por algo.

You're a full portion of what I don't like,' she said. 'Get out of my way.' I didn't move. She didn't move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.

Marlowe," he said, even more earnestly, "I'll try hard, but I don't think I am going to like you." "I'm screaming," I said. "With rage and pain.

We had quite a fight.' 'You mean you had – and mostly with yourself.

Guns never settle anything," I said. "They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act.

draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising

the enemy of our enemy is our ally

Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.

Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.

Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.

Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

It is the nature of things that many people are more interested in affixing blame than fixing the problem.

among man's strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.

dirk, stunning the man. Borric shoved the third bruiser hard into a fat merchant

Of any mortal on this world, Tinuva was foremost on Bovai's list of those who must die at his hands. His very existence was an affront to Bovai, a stain on the honour of his family and clan.

inside out, with all the Sturm und

It was a kind of collective gaslighting. To live in a war that no one around me would acknowledge as a war.

People die in this war, but the ideas cannot be erased.

Opposition is often illusory.