Quotes About Conflict

So tell me what brings you here," Laney says. Adam and I look at each other. He says nothing. Ass-hat. That's one of Jenny's favorite words, and it's becoming one of mine, too. I wait him out, staring steadily, wondering if he can feel the poison seeping out of my heart.

I'm Jenny Tate. Robert Tate's daughter. Great. I'd sound like an idiot. My name is Inigo Montoya, and you slept with my father.

He took vows, but so did I. And in a flash I realize that his affair hasn't killed my love for him. It muffled it, embarrassed it, shamed it. I'm so stupid because I still love you.

Then she slammed the door. Opened it and slammed it again, just in case he missed the point.

Solo se puede odiar de verdad a aquellos a los que amas.

Mrs. Plutarski is such a pill to me. You'd think I routinely crapped on the altar, the way she treats me.

Love brings out the fight in all of us." - Finn, Chosen

No conversation that started with we need to talk ever ended well. It was usually followed by an it's not you, it's

The apparent conflict between the law and police practices may not be so important as we tend to assume. The two may, at times, be at odds, but this is of little concern so long as the interests they serve are essentially the same. The police may violate the law, as long as they do so in the pursuit of ends that people with power generally endorse, and from which such people profit.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war?

The lights are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. —SIR EDWARD GREY, ON WORLD WAR I

He wanted to be angry, to scream and rail and feel honest-to-God outrage. But he wasn't that kind of man. His love for Mikaela was more than just an emotion; it was the sum total of who he was. This one thing he knew above everything else. He loved Mikaela too much. Which in its way was as bad as loving someone not enough.

I don't know why it's so easy for me to forget how much I love her. We start fighting, and…" "Sisters.

It makes no difference that there were already conflicts in childhood, for the conflicts in childhood are different from the conflict of adults. Those who have suffered ever since childhood from a chronic neurosis do not suffer now from the same conflict they suffered from then.

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels.

about love, a sudden decision not to, to pretend instead to a kind of choice.

The truth is, we now live in a world in which everything is politicized,

The prepolitical is no more. There is nothing in this world where human beings can relate to each other that is not a potential arena of political conflict, because all areas of life connect to the overall economic structure of society and thus to society's inequalities and injustices; and Marx should be given much of the credit for laying the theoretical foundations of that.

If we like them, they're freedom fighters . . . If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.