Quotes About Conflict

Okay, okay, I can see that she couldn't love me, but why did she hate me and call me a monster?" "Why did the gorilla hit the tiny baby gorilla and no other one?" Madeline was silent for a long time. "The infant wanted what she couldn't give.

As modern tyrannies are swept away (and every honest heart delights), the quick-thinking servants of the world's great powers still proffer plans to intervene, to jostle, scheme and sponsor factions that they barely understand.

Reason tried to whisper a warning, but Libido drowned him out.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right.

You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give.

There's a reason people will always let you down. It's because they came to this weird planet to live their own lives. Not anybody else's. Classic case of needs in conflict.

How can you do that to a person? Hate them when they haven't even done anything to you?

Suddenly I wanted to think like everyone else seemed to think. That military retaliation was honorable and just. But that's only wanting. War is always pointless.

There comes an age when you answer a call that has nothing to do with the family that raised you. You grow up over their heads, beyond their reach. They'll hate you for it, but this is the natural order of things.

you had been civil, he would have been the one to look bad. Not you. This way you appear to validate him. You give him all the ammunition he needs.

Let me go!" Seth shot out. "Tell me what's going on." "Not with you holding me prisoner." "I'm not holding you prisoner. I'm trying to hold you. I'm trying to put my arms around you and give you a hug, but you're fighting so hard you can't tell.

Because if you had been civil, he would have been the one to look bad. Not you. This way you appear to validate him. You give him all the ammunition he needs.

I'm letting you down. I get that. People always will. That's not as much of a downer as it sounds. There's a reason people will always let you down. It's because they came to this weird planet to live their own lives. Not anybody else's. Classic case of needs in conflict. You get what I'm saying?

Full of wonder and fear warring with each other. August knew the wonder would win. He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway.

I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic.

I love my brother Robbie, but not enough to save him. I love my sister Katie, but I've learned to do it from a distance. This is how we grow. Have you noticed that? This is what we call loving each other. No wonder we have wars.

That's pretty much the definition of a marriage, wouldn't you say? Two people are what they are, and they want what they want. Some of that works well for the other person, and some of it causes problems. The two people try to find some compromise or common ground. If they can't, and it can't be lived with, then the marriage is over.

Our problem is not that you feel one way and I feel another. Our problem is coming to us from outside this house.

So maybe you're sitting here thinking, I have a right to fire my gun if I think I'm in danger. But does your neighbor have a right to fire his gun at you if he thinks you're a danger to him?

War is always pointless. That's what I think.

Over a hundred and twenty Leors had lost their lives, and at least a hundred more had been wounded.

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

Oh, but Masha, can't you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.