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Quotes About Conflict

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~ Seneca the Younger
We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.
~ John McCain
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
~ Antoine Fuqua
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
~ Dwight L. Moody
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.
~ Gerhard Schroder
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict
~ Bridget Riley
If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.
~ David Cronenberg
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
~ Ezra Pound
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
~ Audre Lorde
I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.
~ Barack Obama
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
~ Bruce Sterling
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
~ Carl Sandburg
Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?
~ Cassandra Clare
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.
~ Daniel Harvey Hill
Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.
~ Ellen Gilchrist
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
~ Jeff Gannon
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
~ Jessica Savitch
Steve Fisher did not like me at all. I was hyper-critical of him. I didn't think he was much of a coach. He just kind of rolled the ball out there and I was pretty outspoken about that. Steve Fisher and I didn't get along at all.
~ Jason Whitlock
Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.
~ John de Lancie
If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.
~ Nigel Farage
The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.
~ Titus Welliver
On all the 'Housewives' shows, there's always some wannabe wife who's always sticking her head in.
~ Danielle Schneider