Quotes About Conflict

I used to think that a good relationship meant always getting along. But the secret, I realize, is that when one person shuts down or throws a fit, the other needs to stay in the adult ego state. If both people descend to the wounded child or adapted adolescent, that's when all forces of relationship drama and destruction are unleashed.

I want to learn martial arts, he said docilely, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

Strip away the community bond and the seduction business interests that united us, and what was left? Six guys chasing after a limited subset of available women. Wars have been fought, world leaders shot, and tragedies wrought by males claiming territorial rights over the opposite sex. Perhaps we'd just been too blind to see that Project Hollywood was doomed from the start by the very pursuit that had brought it together. After

Butting heads with someone never works," his mom said. "I always say that you don't have to do the direct approach. You can just go around because there's always a back way." "Now I know where he got Mystery Method from." In three sentences, his mother had unintentionally summarized Mystery's entire approach to meeting women: the indirect method.

Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.

administration lead to interpersonal problems and spiritual bondage.

The issues we address do not pit the Wesleyan against the Calvinist or the evangelical against the charismatic. This is not to say that these are not important issues, because they are and will remain so until the Lord comes back. But they are not issues that we are going to allow Satan to use as a point of division.

Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him.

If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you opened your mouth?

Later, when she examined her feeling of annoyance, Irene admitted, a shade reluctantly, that it arose from a feeling of being outnumbered, a sense of aloneness, in her adherence to her own class and kind; not merely in the great thing of marriage, but in the whole pattern of her life as well.

Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger.

Without women, there would be perpetual war and chaos. With them, there was only chaos.

She asked me, "Was your divorce nasty?" "Not at all. The marriage was nasty.

Cursed are the peacemakers for they make the next war harder than the last.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

He suddenly rushed me and somehow managed to smash his balls into my fist.

Hollis said to Banks, "Once I bombed only politically approved targets. We lost the war.

We entered the house, and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast.

and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.

carrying their Yemeni walking sticks, a.k.a. AK-47s.

Most Al Qaeda members in Yemen are not Yemenis, and those who are, are prohibited from using khat. So Al Qaeda is sober all day, and everyone else here is spaced out after lunch." He added, "That's one reason why I think Al Qaeda is going to win here. Unless we can stop them." Right. Like in Vietnam, Paul. How did that work out for you?

We weren't going to win the war on terrorism until we won the war of the words.

a place where the worst elements of humanity had defeated civilization.