Quotes About Conflict

The more you stir up crap the more it's going to smell.

We didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating them for more than five minutes.

We didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brothers and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating them for more than five minutes.

It very difficult for my heart to accept what my mind knows sometimes am just fighting with myself.

It very difficult for my heart to accept what my mind knows, sometimes I am just fighting with myself.

Anger only breeds more anger in return, it's an endless chain...Practicing self-control would take you a long way...and self-analysis would give you the insight to see that a person that snaps so easily uses projection to cover his own bullshit. A person with true strength of character, would take an issue at hand, weigh the facts, and act accordingly with a balanced mind...

At times we have to stand up for ourselves and put our foot down, so we put our point across with controlled and calculated anger because many people out there are stiff necked and unrelenting, it's a means to protect one's integrity and at the same time trying to edify the opposing party...but a person that snaps at a whim suffers from chronic anger, lacks self-control and is not at peace with oneself, such a person has deep unconscious issues that needs to be addressed...

It hurts to much to love you. But the truth is, It hurts too much not to love you.

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

Think of what the word means literally, to de-press, to press down. What is "pressed down"? Life's energy, life's intentionality is thwarted, denied, violated… Life is warring against life….

Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school -- or the whole world even -- than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

Deal with him, Hemingway!

This in no life for man or woman, insults and hatred and history.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

His wife was a little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk.

It is dangerous to abandon one's own country, but it is more dangerous still to return to it, for then your fellow country-men, if they can, will drive a knife into your heart.

It is for Your Excellency to decide, should you agree with me in opinion, what is proper to be done. . . . I would recommend measures be taken for . . . the restoration of peace.

Mexico was not a country, Krill thought. It was a revolution that had never stopped.

Varina was breathing hard through her nose, her face pinched, not unlike a child's. "You don't know how mad you can make people," she said. "I had tender feelings for you once, whether you knew it or not. But you're a shit, Dave Robicheaux.

I wasn't a criminal, but I was genuinely insane. My greatest enemy is sleep. I see the men and boys I killed many years ago in a foreign land, and I'm filled with sorrow. Have you had those experiences, sir? Please tell me that is indeed the case and that you wish to get them out of your life. Can you do that for me, sir?

Wars of enormous importance are fought in places nobody cares about.

James Lee Burke

reread James Street's Tap Roots and By Valour and Arms, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville, Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox, and all the works of Shelby Foote.