Quotes About Conflict

Oh che sanguinosa e spaziosa porta Fa l'una e l'altra spada ovunque giugna, Nell'arme e nelle carni! E se la vita Non esce, sdegno tienla al petto unita.

I do not respect you, and I will never let you have any of my fossil fish

She'd had a terrible time with his brothers' wives : seeing her with them was like watching someone pet a cat against its fur.

You destroyed it with crosses and diseases and whiskey and guns.

That is not the way it should be. Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.

DO NOT PRAY! If you pray, your hands will close together. You will not be able to fight!" -Guts

Hate is a place where a man, who can't stand sadness, goes.

The thing about hatred… It's the place where people who can't look sorrow in the eye without waverin' run.

If you hate me, than kill me or shut the fuck up

I don't want to hurt anyone" Laszlo fiddled with a button on his tux jacket. "Can't we convince the CIA that some of us are peaceful?" "we'll have to try" Angus folded his arms across his broad chest. "And if they doona believe we're peaceful, then we'll have to kill the bastards." Roman frowned, somehow their Highlander logic escaped him.

Roman might have survived the Great Vampire War of 1710, but he was about to face an even worse terror. A mortal female in full rage.

Kindness is not the same as niceness or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.

Kindness is not the same as niceness, or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life, and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us." ? Kerry Egan, On Living

Lie still,' she urged. 'You are hurt. Someone shot you, and damn near shot me, too. Who was it?' The head shook, the lips moved. He was clad in a workman's collarless blue shirt, and what had been a respectable grey serge suit before he had taken to dying in it.

The mistake most of us make in our crucial conversations is we believe that we have to choose between telling the truth and keeping a friend.

When it comes to risky, controversial, and emotional conversations, skilled people find a way to get all relevant information (from themselves and others) out into the open.

You mentioned that the McGillahees would fight if provoked. I intend to provoke the bloody hell out of you right here and now.

Yo también preferiría besarte todo el tiempo en lugar de despreciarte —dijo al cabo de un momento—. Pero de algún modo tú tampoco lo pones fácil. -Gideon

I still have a headache," said Charlotte, without looking up from the floor. "There, you see?" Aunt Glenda gave a venomous smile. "I have a headache too," said Mum. "But that doesn't mean I'm about to start traveling in time.

Jedes Mädchen würde ihn toll finden", sagte ich. "Zumindest vom Aussehen her. Aber er bringt mich die ganze Zeit auf die Palme und er kommandiert mich herum und er ist einfach... er ist einfach unwahrscheinlich..." "... toll?" Leslie lächelte mich liebevoll an.

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.

Gideon mi lasciò, si alzò e si avvicinò a Mr Whitman. «Dovrò ammanettarlo» disse con un sospiro. «E poi bisogna fasciare la ferita del dottor White.» «Sì, e poi dobbiamo liberare gli altri dalla stanza del cronografo»aggiunsi. «Ma prima sarà meglio mettersi d'accordo sulla storia da raccontare.» «E prima ancora devo assolutamente baciarti» concluse Gideon abbracciandomi di nuovo.

By the early 1980s, the view that most any conflict—domestic or international, intergroup or interpersonal—could be reframed and negotiated to a satisfying conclusion if only the right technical skills were brought to bear on it had become part of the popular imagination. Books championing such technical approaches regularly appeared on bestseller lists.

Yet even as the possibility that all conflicts might yield to skilled application of technical knowledge assuaged the popular imagination, some scholars and analysts were sounding alarms about the dangers of a culture-free conception of conflict. And we began to push back against the received view that conflicts required only mechanically technical solutions.