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Quotes About Conflict

Trouble is, your best ain't always the best for those who want a say in the matter.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
That's one more thing that I detest about war. It's not over when it ends.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
No one who wants a peaceful, safe life needs a weapon. Only soldiers at war need guns, and we are not at war. -The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Hartnell's appearance at this time will indubitably require you to address…a conflict, perhaps? It is a rhetorical question. Consider your discomfort and welcome it as the ache necessary for you to become more deeply attuned.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
You know, Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, you have an attitude problem. I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
It was that palpable sense of presence shoved up against the reality of absence, like hot against cold, that really threatened to buckle the whole mass.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Lo que ellos más ansían es aplastarme. Les interesa más derrotarme que el futuro de nuestra nación.
~ Jaime Manrique
en la guerra, el fin justifica los medios. Aquel
~ Jaime Manrique
Los colombianos constantemente buscaban excusas para verter más sangre. De
~ Jaime Manrique
Una nación de gente cegada por la ira, una raza de bestias feroces indiferentes al sufrimiento humano. La gente vivía para las venganzas y los ajustes de cuentas. Lo que se buscaba no era el final del sufrimiento sino su continuación.
~ Jaime Manrique
Las batallas son algo horrible, Manuela. Tomar las vidas de otros seres humanos no es motivo de jactancia." Todas
~ Jaime Manrique
In peace sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.
~ James A. Michener
in 1954 it looked as if a deep schism had been driven down the middle of our community, pitting Japanese against haole, but the Sakagawa boys had the courage to back away from that tempting, perilous course. They reconciled haole and Japanese, and it is to their credit that they did so.
~ James A. Michener
The South Pacific was once the playground for ship-sick European sailors. Then it became the roistering barricade of the last great pirates. Next it was the longed-for escape from the canyons of New York. Then the unwilling theatre for an American military triumph. But now it has become the meeting ground for Asia and America.
~ James A. Michener
especially the Japanese and Russian
~ James A. Michener
Tôi không yêu chi?n tranh, nhưng tôi yêu lòng can ??m mà ng??i bình th??ng dùng ?? ??i m?t vá»›i chi?n tranh.
~ James A. Michener
in the short run brutality always wins; it takes longer for amity to prevail.
~ James A. Michener
We all hurt other people, especially those we love...civilized people were the ones who had learned to hurt according to rules.
~ James A. Michener
So the present enmity between the nations of this area has got to be considered a temporary interruption of an historic process, and I have found that where temporary interruptions go against the grain of history they do not long endure.
~ James A. Michener
if a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere;
~ James A. Michener
Because when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness upon their eyes.
~ James A. Michener
a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and
~ James A. Michener
They were the ships of Task Force 77 and they had been sent to destroy the communist-held bridges at Toko-ri.
~ James A. Michener
The sanest judgment that can be passed on the genesis of this terrible war between two groups of friends is that it was the result of imperiousness on the English side and intransigence on the Boer. Like
~ James A. Michener