Quotes About Conflict

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

I ever said back when we had our choice words I still told everybody that I respected him. I wouldn't want to have to do [Joe Rogan] job and I don't know anybody else that could do his job.

I don't like your hair black. (Artemis) And I don't like your head attached to your shoulders. Guess we can't all have what we want, huh? (Acheron)

I want the tigard. (Varyk) And I want you to leave. Guess who's going to win this argument? And in case you're even denser than you appear, it's not you. (Dev)

Let me guess, Velkan wants to see me? (Esperetta) No. The only thing His Highness would like to see in regards to you, Princess, is your disembowelment. (Raluca)

Don't, Cassandra. (Wulf) Oh, please. I just want to choke her for a few minutes. (Cassandra)

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.