Quotes About Conflict

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu.

There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

I am convinced there is no more effective method of preventing a war than a decisive stance illustrating that we are ready at any moment to repel possible attack.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

When things get heated, you are pulled in different directions, and you've to stand firm.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

I know how to stand up to a bully - but maybe more importantly how to work around a bully.

I would love to be an ambassador for Baylor, to show my school pride, but it's hard to do that - it's hard to stand up and say, 'Baylor is the best!' - when the administration has a written policy against homosexuality.

What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes out as queer.' She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were one thought of as being conflicting.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.

Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.

For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.