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Quotes About Conflict

When it comes to war, if you're going to pick up a gun, you cannot have an imbalance of commitment. You have to be ready to go, ready to fight, and ready to die.
~ James Patterson
Stevie Kosgrov is my very own somewhat demented Dudley Dursley—if Dudley had muscles and serious BO issues and knew how to jam people's heads down toilets to give them a swirly. Yes
~ James Patterson
Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.
~ James Patterson
walked away, Jeanne Galletta heard him mutter something like "calm down" under his breath. Typical. Male cops tended to respond one way to a man's
~ James Patterson
I've always felt like we were the civilized ones, fighting against the ones enjoying blowing up kindergartens, taking down civilian airliners, shooting up shopping malls.
~ James Patterson
Flip kept telling me not to worry so much about Miller, but Flip was Flip, and I was me. And Miller definitely had it in for ME.
~ James Patterson
A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight.
~ James Patterson
laughing, so I kept going. "'Your wife is ugly, and your daughter too. I think this play is stupid, so guess what? I'm out of here and you can kiss my—
~ James Patterson
Henry draws the sidearm from his CO belt and aims it at Henry.
~ James Patterson
I raise the weapon. We lock eyes. We understand each other. ´If it had to be anybody,´ he says, ´I´m glad it was you.´ I nod and fire the gun.
~ James Patterson
Storm is getting nowhere." "She might be putting some of them to sleep." "Uh-oh, Schmerkel is screaming again.
~ James Patterson
You don't want to be anywhere near one of our battles. I don't even want to be near our battles. Unfortunately, the evil idiots usually don't give me a choice. —
~ James Patterson
clamp its jaws on the Black Hawk's landing gear and drag it underwater.
~ James Patterson
Using words to de-escalate a situation is always ideal. No cop wants a physical altercation.
~ James Patterson
Yes, Stevie Kosgrov makes my new home a living hell.
~ James Patterson
Rafe jumped Miller!" Gabe said. The problem was, it was true. There were about three dozen witnesses.
~ James Patterson
heads—and since cops
~ James Patterson
and House are enemies….
~ James Patterson
WITH BROTHERS LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
~ James Patterson
jacket. And I found some of her shit in his closet
~ James Patterson
HAC: Human-Animal Conflict.
~ James Patterson
We start talking about current events. I ask him, "What's the story about weapons of mass destruction?" "I wanted them." "Did you get them?" "No." "So why did you kind of lead everybody on that you had weapons of mass destruction?
~ James Patterson
Mom and Bear got into a big fight that afternoon when she told him what had happened. He kept yelling about how she wasn't "hard enough" on me, and she kept telling him to back off. I just stayed in my room, wishing for it to be over. Finally, Mom said something about how she was late for work, and she slammed the door on her way out.
~ James Patterson
As the wars and natural disasters fall upon one another like a hard rain, they get buried in the quickly overlapping layers of mud in our shitty memories.
~ James Patterson