Quotes About Conflict

My old man was a walking, talking master class. But in the end, the main thing I learned—the best thing—was never to bring a knife to a gunfight.

Terrorism's religion is politics. It's about interests. Look at who benefits.

The greatest enemy of the Greeks is not a Nation, for no Nation is a match for any Greek. It is the Greek himself that is his worst enemy.

In this we may be alike, Assassin, you & me: we believe We want what's best for humanity. I'll probably survive Dancing with the kinds of people who must find refuge Among the sweat & rancor of a Fish & Chicken Shack But Assassin, they'll probably murder you. Do you ask, Why you should die for me if I will not die for you? I do.

Objectively" Stan was 100 percent right. At the same time, however, he was 100 percent tin-eared when it came to his wife's subjective experience. Worse, every time Lucy tried to tell him what bothered her, every time she tried to bridge the gap between them, Stan only retreated more staunchly into his precious rightness.

It has been said that there are two types of couples in the world—those who fight and those who distance. I'd add a third type: those who do both. One rails while the other shuts down. Hailstorm and tortoise.

Us is the seat of closeness. You and me is the seat of adversarial contest. You and me is great when you are confronting a tiger, but less so when you are confronting your spouse, your boss, or your child.

As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling.

We all know what fight looks like. As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling. Finally, the knee-jerk response of fixing is not the same as a mature, considered wish to work on the relationship. Adaptive Child fixers are fueled by an anxious, driven need to take anyone's tension away from them as quickly as possible. Their motto is "I'm upset until you're not.

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

They send you to places where bombs explode like jack-in-the-boxes, blowing your friends to pieces before your eyes. Then they punish you when you can't stop thinking about it.

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.

In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends... and occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking.

Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?

Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice.

I thought of the sign Steve had over his desk back home. It bore the word "warrior" and its definition: "One who is engaged in battle.

I flew back to the States in December of 1992 with conflicting emotions. I was excited to see my family and friends. But I was sad to be away from Steve. Part of the problem was that the process didn't seem to make any sense. First I had to show up in the States and prove I was actually present, or I would never be allowed to immigrate back to Australia. And, oh yeah, the person to whom I had to prove my presence was not, at the moment, present herself.

then forcing his wife to eat the roasted flesh! Amazingly, two enemies, an English

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

Israel rightly pointed out that Yasser Arafat was an unrepentant terrorist and

What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.