Quotes About Conflict

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

We were like bishops of opposite color.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Growing up in Buffalo, you always hated the Dolphins, but I just remember my one friend always liked the opposite team, and he liked the Dolphins, so I remember always going at it with him.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.

It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.

If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

I think, when I wrote 'Children of Jihad,' I wrote it with a very optimistic view of what technology can do. Today I maintain that optimistic view, but I'm also aware of the challenges we have. So I would say I'm not a techno-utopian, but I'm a techno-pragmatist.

Our adversaries must see diplomacy as their best option because war with the United States will force them to bear enormous costs.

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.