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Quotes About Conflict

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
War is the mother of everything.
~ Heraclitus
If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
~ Henny Youngman
the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?
~ Sonia Sanchez
Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.
~ Lenny Bruce
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
~ Jack London
The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.
~ Les Dawson
I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.
~ Trevor Noah
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices
~ Egon Schiele
A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
~ Lorne Michaels
There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.
~ Willie Nelson
My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.
~ Ashley Judd
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
~ Harriet Lerner
When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.
~ Lucie Arnaz
Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.
~ Romano Prodi
My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.
~ Mika
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
~ Honore de Balzac
Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.
~ Anwar Sadat
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
~ Beatrice Wood
It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.
~ Beverly D'Angelo
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
~ Edward Albee
The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.
~ Paul Lynde