Quotes About Conflict

These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

The heart is a treacherous beast, but it means well.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

obstinate , adj . Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

i want him to give up, no. no, i don't.

Even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Just be warned, you said. Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it`s going to get ugly.

But I guess it's just as easy to get lost in the dealing as it is to get lost in the avoidance.

why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU'D BETTER FIX IT!

We all have about 98 percent in common with each other. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Race is different purely as a social construction, not as inherent difference. And religion - whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

Esas clases de peleas nunca pueden ser ganadas, incluso si eres el victorioso, has herido a la otra persona, y tiene que haber alguna derrota asociada con eso.

Blood is thicker than water, I suppose. It can also leave a much crueler stain.

Infinite Darlene doesn't have it easy. Being both star quarterback and homecoming queen has its conflicts.

rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.)

I love being with you and Joni and the rest of the group. I love being a part of that. But I can never really enjoy it, because I know that at the end, I'll be back here. Sometimes I can forget, and when I can forget, it's bliss. But this past week has been hell. It's like I've been pushed back into the shape of this person I used to be. And I don't fit into the old shape anymore. I don't fit.

That day. Even though my back is turned, I can see what's going on. The sound of their taunting- I know what that looks like. Words like freak and loser- I know what kind of face says them. Our teacher is ignoring it; he does not have the strength to deal with it. Or maybe he agrees with what's being said. He agrees by talking math as the notebook is pulled out of Anton's hand. Even though he sees what's going on, his back is turned.

I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

I take it back." 'But the thing was: She didn't sound certain. I let her take it back anyway. The only problem was taking something back? It's still inside there somewhere.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I'd never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.