Quotes About Conflict

The queen sighed. What am I going to do with all of you now! You're going to let us continue our journey, Belgarath replied calmly. We'll argue about it, of course, but in the end that's the way it'll turn out. She stared at him. You did ask, after all. I'm sure you feel better now that you know.

The priest DID have it coming, though, Lelldorin declared hotly. What priest? The priest of Chaldan at that little chapel who wouldn't marry us because Arianna couldn't give him a document proving she had her family's consent. He was very insulting. Did you break anything? A few of his teeth is about all-- and I stopped hitting him as soon as he agreed to perform the ceremony.

You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.

We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.

Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.

Women are almost always angry with us for one reason or another. It's one of the things you'll have to get used to as you get older.

As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens to bite his tongue.

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.

Garion drew in a deep breath. Or, he continued, I can go off by myself and find Torak - wherever he is - and try to kill him. Silk whistled, his eyes widening. He said that I didn't have to go alone, Garion added hopefully. I asked him about that. Thanks, Belgarath said dryly.

Le guerre sono belle, ma tendono a interferire con faccende più importanti.

An arrow in the knee." The count shrugged. "The result of an old disagreement—long since forgotten.

In your view, evil's no more than a disagreement about the way things are supposed to be.

Most asset classes contain investment vehicles exhibiting some degree of agency risk, with corporate bonds representing an extreme case. Structural issues render corporate bonds hopelessly flawed as a portfolio alternative. Shareholder interests, with which company management generally identifies, diverge so dramatically from the goals of bondholders that lenders to companies must expect to end up on the wrong side of nearly every conflict.

Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself

Una de ellas era la reinterpretación, es decir, tratar de entender la situación más positivamente. En el caso de los conflictos, eso implica cambiar nuestra creencia de que un conflicto es como una pelea de box, como se muestra en la ilustración 48.

Más bien, hay que ver el conflicto como una gran oportunidad. Como un tesoro que está en la cima de una pared de piedra. Pero la única forma de ganar ese tesoro es subiendo en equipo con la otra parte del conflicto como

El 30 % del tiempo de las gerencias se pierde por mal manejo de conflictos (Thomas y Schmidt, 1976).

El 50 % de la rotación involuntaria en el trabajo se debe a conflictos no resueltos (Mediation Training Institute, s.f.).

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff--they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip from some reason.

and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.