Quotes About Conflict

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.

No matter what I do, you're going to be upset by something.

I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.

The Democrats are besides themselves because they don't understand Trump. They don't understand: you don't get between the American people - because Americans are upset.

Town meetings are not bean bag. I've had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our process.

The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.

People lie when they get upset.

One thing about racing, a lot of times you'll get upset with someone, yet we live in confinement here. It's almost like we live in a prison and you have to try and get along. Forgive and forget.

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.

It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!

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The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.