Quotes About Conflict

Contrary to popular wisdom, growing older does not make you less conflicted. In fact, you become more and more conflicted by the second. You can see all sides of any given thing. It's all stupid bullshit and you want all of it, everything, and you also want none of it,

He was the soul of kindness and concern. The fact that he had talked to my father about this made me want to stab him. But I only said, "I'll talk to Patrick. This doesn't sit right with me.

If tearing someone's acrylic nails off, glue and all, and cramming them down her throat didn't look so unattractive, I would probably do just that to Drea right now.

Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one out in the world could ever love or value or nurture her children as well as she could and yet that it was necessary nonetheless to send them out into that world anyway.

This had always pissed him off about Romeo and Juliet, its ending platitude that at least the feud was laid to rest and the fighting families had come together as if this somehow made it worth losing their teenagers. As if Romeo and Juliet would have been willing to die just so their parents would get along.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

No doubt he is a man of principle,' said Kamren. 'But they are the wrong principles.

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart.

With the Five Gifts, we can solve our problems without shooting each other.

No matter how I think we grow, you always seem to let me know it ain't working, and when I try to walk away you hurt yourself to make me stay, this is crazy

I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away from me cmon now), so I tell you leave when I mean stay

it could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, "If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window!

The world's not perfect, tomboy. Sometimes we have fires and fistfights and lose friends.

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.

tangled and eternal as Appalachian feuds – are internecine

We don't want you here living with us. You are white, and we do not trust you. You must take your family and go." I could hear the sudden intake of breath. every head in the crowd swiveled, first to the Nkosi, and then to me. I suddenly felt tired. This is what it had all come to;in South Africa, when logic shrivels, the same dreary dinosaurs rear their vicious heads.

the biggest damage to the Baghdad Zoo had not been done in battle, fierce as it had been. It was the looters. They had killed or kidnapped anything edible and ransacked everything else. Even the lamp poles had been unbolted, tipped over, and their copper wiring wrenched out like multicolored spaghetti. As we drove past, we could see groups of looters still at it, scavenging like colonies of manic ants.

Everybody has mean little places inside himself.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

we are all inevitably someone's adversary.