Quotes About Conflict

I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.

Both of them became adept at killing off the best qualities of the other. In some ways, there was something classic and quintessentially American in their marriage. They began as lovers and ended up as the most dangerous and unutterable of enemies. As lovers, they begat children; as enemies, they created damaged, endangered children.

When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.

There is no stronger brotherhood than between two boys who discover that both were born to fathers who waged war on their sons.

single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her

Every time I eat grits, it becomes perfectly clear to me why the South lost the war.

When prejudice between team members is present within the team, it's as though a hockey team voluntarily decided to place one or two of their members in the penalty box, and attempted to compete effectively against the opposing team with fewer players.

Role issues are invariably one of the top three problems teams face (ineffective processes and communication represent the other two major team problems).

Many feel that process and creativity are in conflict, believing that creativity needs spontaneity and unstructured approaches. No doubt, a lot of creativity is a by-product of informal, spontaneous thinking.

Within the team you must balance demands, sometimes conflicting, between individual team members and the task, between individual team members and the team, between the team and the task, and between the team and the larger organization. Again, you're a juggler. And if you drop one of these balls, you must invest in damage control.

They say I don't pray for my enemy. I do. I pray they go to hell. - Marshal Law

He is not here to help me with this; you must take his place.' Ducon started to speak, faltered. He stared at her, the bruise on his face suddenly vivid against his pallor, as if she had struck him.

He seems to be fighting again. But whether he is battling memories or something real, I can't tell.

friend—as though she were betraying him. "I didn't realize

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.

He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.

I appreciate your sentiments but I do not waste my time punching people in the nose. If I really don't like somebody, I kill him. – Victor Van Allen

The anxiety has always been within himself, a battle of himself against himself, so tortuous he might have welcomed the law's intervention.

Therese Belivet: I never asked for anything! Maybe that's the problem!

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Houston's army would be slaughtered in the same manner if they did not fight to win. Cade understood that. But he wished he was home with Lily. He had spent thirty-two years surviving. He wanted to live for a change. Lily was the first person to offer him that opportunity, and instead of building a life with her, he was here, prepared to destroy the lives of others. It didn't make sense, but Cade knew he had to do it. He

Damn you, you Indian bastard! You're not leaving me to tell Lily of your death. You're going to get up and walk out of here if it's the last thing I do. But

Which side are you on, Cade? she asked quietly. Unwilling to answer the implications in that question, Cade gave the simple truth. Mine. His