Quotes About Conflict

A wife must do whatever her husband orders her to do." The command didn't sit well with her. "This wife doesn't." "Damn it, Gillian, don't turn stubborn on me." "A husband doesn't curse in his wife's presence." "This husband does," he snapped.

When you're right, you're right. That's it? He was suddenly furious with her and didn't care that it showed. Damn it, she had told him she loved him, and after a one-minute argument, she caved. What the hell kind of love was that? That's all you have to say? No, actually there is one more thing I'd like to mention. Yeah? What's that? You're an idiot.

A soft answer turneth away wrath." OLD TESTAMENT

Max finally took the phone from her when she held it out him and said, Simon wants to talk to his white brother. I carry a gun now, he reminded his brother. So stop calling me that.

Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi

But there are two sides to every fight. It starts from something small, a chance remark, a gesture made lightly. It grows from there. Both sides can be unjust. Both can be cruel.

Shouts and blows may have won arguments for you in the past, fellow. They are pointless in the current situation.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Si dice che un amore eccessivo susciti un odio cento volte più grande.

To Yukiko, however, drawn as she was to the past, there was something very unsatisfactory about this brother in law, and she was sure that from his grave her father too was reproaching Tatsuo.

Cuanto más le odiaba, tanto más intentaba amarle, y lo conseguía. Estimulada por el apetito sexual, no podía hacer otra cosa.

Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being too attached to her family, which was condemned as a bourgeois habit, and had to see less and less of her own mother.

Only surrender could save her people-as well as spare the country civil war.

I wanted to get close to you, and at the same time to stay away from you. I wanted to know you, and at the same time I resisted that knowing. I wanted to look at you and at the same time felt ashamed to look. My state of suspension was such that the crevice between us grew deeper and deeper, and holding the broken glass together with my two hands, I barely preserved its form.

I want so desperately for you to come safely through this moment and make a step toward me. Have I lost to him or has he lost to me?

The whole exchange between us seemed to be proceeding on two quite divergent rails.

But when I heard your response, while I applauded in my heart that things had gone well, I wondered why I had the painful feeling that I had been betrayed. It was all right since it was I, but what if it had been some complete stranger? Once you had hesitated, you acquiesced.

Smashing things is the violent way stupid mortal monkeys solve their problems.

Hört auf zu streiten, oder ich tue so, als ob ich in Ohnmacht falle. Vielleicht schreie ich auch ein bisschen.

if one keeps seeking revenge, there will be no end to violence. To avenge the Chalukya Emperor's invasion, the Kanchi Chakravarthy will invade Vatapi. The scions of the Chalukya dynasty will invade Kanchi again to seek revenge. Just like a tree growing from a seed and seed-bearing fruit growing on that tree, the cycle of evil in this world will be never-ending. Someone must forget and forgive for the sake of this world's well-being.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest of ways, we find it impossible... to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet?

Remember that we can become twinned with an enemy and come to resemble him. Our hatred may become an alter ego, a part of our identity.