Quotes About Conflict

Och jag påpekade att huvudparten av vår tids olyckor har vållats av läsning och skrivning. De kemiska formlerna. Den genetiska koden. Partiprogrammen. Krigsförklaringarna. Myndigheterna. Atombomben.

But over the years you can cultivate hate for the art you love.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

As they pushed through the door a remarkable sight met their eyes: the Muskrat was sitting in the fork of a tree eating a pear. "Where's mother?" asked Moomintroll. "She's trying to get your father out of his room," replied the Muskrat, bitterly. "This is what comes of collecting plants. I've never quite trusted that Hemulen. Well, I hope the Muskrat heaven is a peaceful place, because I shan't be here much longer.

One evening, Sophia wrote a letter and stuck it under the door. It said, "I hate you. With warm personal wishes, Sophia.

You'll never have a face of your own until you've learned to fight. (Little My to Ninny the Invisible Child)

Juuri tällä hetkellä hän halusi tapella kenen kanssa tahansa, vain tapella ja huutaa ja olla vakuuttunut siitä, että kaikki muut olivat väärässä ja että hänen oli annettava niille selkään.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

Just being here with the beautiful Miss Hannah Dandridge makes it worth my while. I much prefer scavenging for food in the company of pretty gals over killin' men." He sobered and rubbed his chin. "Yes, sir, I prefer just about anything to killin'." "Well, I wish you luck with Miss Dandridge. You will most likely find a battlefield easier to manage.

I think you'd better leave." Lockhart stiffened. "I do not believe it is your place to request my departure." Shaking his head, William pushed back his chair. "I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you to go.

Somehow, when his duties had consisted of killing hostile Sioux and Cheyenne, Zane had been able to justify the situation. Those groups were warring against the wagon trains and refusing to follow government instructions. Many tribes saw the whites as an impossible threat, refusing to even try to get along. But the Blackfoot had been friendly. For the most part. Mountain

The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.

Women think they're strong when they're fighting other women, but when a man fights them, they know the truth.

Dianthe wanted her to be the hero, the hardened flyer doing her part to win the war. But she wasn't a hero. She was a romantic. A foolish one, probably, giving up everything for the boy she loved.

Dysis stared at her over the top of the shower door, unself-conscious and angry. "You came all this way for some lovesick suicide mission? Yeah, I'd say that's stupid.

while the father storms through adjacent rooms ranting with the force of kingdom come, not caring anymore what might snap us in its jaw

MATTIE FAE: I don't believe you. Watchin' the baseball game and drinkin' beers. Don't you have any sense of what's going on around you? This situation is fraught. CHARLIE: Am I supposed to sit here like a statue? You're drinking whiskey. MATTIE FAE: I'm having a cocktail. CHARLIE: You're drinking straight whiskey. MATTIE FAE: Just . . . show a little class.

BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing "went on." Can we just not make a federal case out of everything?

CHARLIE: So you can't even see Ivy's point? MATTIE FAE: No. CHARLIE: That Little Charles and Beverly share some kind of . . . complication. MATTIE FAE: Honey, you have to be smart to be complicated. CHARLIE: That's our boy. Are you saying our boy isn't smart? MATTIE FAE: Yes, that's what I'm saying.

KAREN: What do you want me to say? BARBARA: Tell him we got a sick woman here. VIOLET: You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house! BARBARA: You don't get it, do you? (With a burst of adrenaline, she strides to Violet, towers over her) I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW! (Blackout.)

Violet really has a way of putting you in attack mode, you know it? BARBARA: She doesn't have anything to do with it. BILL: Don't you believe it. You feel such rage for her that you can't help dishing it my direction— BARBARA: I swear to God, you psychoanalyze me right now, I skin you.

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under the rug or wherever they can go.

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

True peace cannot be obtained through force, it can only be contained. Peace requires understanding, defeat can create bitter hearts and minds wanting to seek revenge.