Quotes About Conflict

Ajax defending his honor when he fought against Troy along with Ulysses, who claimed his actions enabled the Greeks to be victorious. The chiefs side with Ulysses, and Ajax, having lost his honor as a warrior, draws his sword and proclaims: But this at least is mine, or does Ulysses claim this also for himself? This I must employ against myself; and the sword which has often reeked with Phrygian blood will now reek with its masters, lest any man but Ajax ever conquer Ajax.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!

Militat omnis amans.

I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.

It is difficult to understand those whom one does not hate, for then one is unarmed, one has nothing with which to penetrate into their being.

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness

No. Seriously. Speak American and not this ancient and very fucked-up, confusing olden-day Euro crap. Without the confusing woo-woo refrences, explain why the hell you're writing Zoey off.

Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight

Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over? - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters

She's way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy." "Please. Just please with the blame-my-mommy-'cause-I'm-a-bitch crap

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

She's really amazing, Darius said as he gazed lovingly after her. If by amazing you mean a total pain in the butt, then I'll agree with you.

You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich. That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream? Of course I was the cream. Sha.--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)

You asked what you'd done to displease me and I told you: you're breathing. And in much too close a proximity to me. That displeases me. It's time you depart my bed." Neferet sighed and flicked her fingers at him in dismissal. "Go. Now.

When boys get mad its not so bad When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!

People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.

He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange back yard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.