Quotes About Conflict

Obviously good economics is not always good politics.

Like so many other French generals in the Peninsula, he was soon to find that victory is not the same thing as conquest.

That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your fucking mouth shut.

It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.

My God, I hate you! ' she flung at him. 'Do you really?' Andreas sneered, and his face was savage. 'Well, I've got news for you, my darling. What you feel for me is lukewarm compared to what I feel for you.

Heroine: You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves? Hero: I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you so long as I do.

Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.

It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them.

Sara: You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves? Nick: I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you, so long as I do.

have you killed me, false thief?

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

And by the way, the fact that she's not speaking to anyone in her family is a pretty good indicator that she is the problem.

RA is the use of relationships to hurt another, a way of verbal violence in which words rather than fists inflict damage.

A battle was a battle. Warriors fought like warriors, but most of life was not a battle.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Have you not heard that when two brothers fight a stranger reaps the harvest?

How can a man who has killed five men in a battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their family number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.

Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere—politics, academia, sports, you name it.

But in dealing with a man who thinks you a fool it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

If my enemy speaks the truth I will not say because it is spoken by my enemy I will not listen.

Okonkwo was ruled by one passion -- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.

When the moon rose late in the night, people said it was refusing food, as a sullen husband refuses his wife's food when they have quarrelled.

Its body was carved with men and pythons and little steps were cut on one side; without these the drummer could not climb to the top to beat it. When the Ikolo was beaten for war it was decorated with skulls won in past wars. But now it sang of peace.

It is not bravery when a man fights with a woman.