Quotes About Conflict

Under the table, I crossed my legs so hard it hurt. I was using all the strength it would take to run away, only to stay still.

Just be warned," you said. "Someday you'll ask me to give up something I really love, and then it's going to get ugly.

No treaty but trenches all quiet years to years home in no man's land.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

i would rather eat dog shit full of razor blades than have anything to do with you.

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

Amar es tan doloroso, ¿cómo se lo podríamos desear a alguien? Y el amor es tan esencial, ¿cómo podríamos interponernos en su camino?

Hace tiempo estuve saliendo con una bruja. No terminamos bien. —¿Qué pasó? —No me llevaba bien con su gato.

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.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, an most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Their appetite for government spending and class conflict is insatiable, and their contempt for Trump precludes their support for his policies regardless of how effective they are.

When enemy is thought of as filth, war is conceived as a grand hygiene operation.

The joy of war is the joy of the huntm of bringing down game, of ridding the world of a man-eating monster or obliterating a plague.

Our relationship with killing is ambivalent, a compound of pleasure and aversion. Both are deeply rooted in human nature, and neither can be extirpated.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.

From the scalped bodies of ancient warriors to the suicide bombers in today's newspaper headlines, history is drenched in human blood.

We exploit science to make war because we are warlike creatures.

The more we learn about ourselves and our history, the more we are confronted with our extraordinarily violent character.

To understand war, we must understand ourselves.

The house is a place where things can go wrong.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

Jennifer Lynch: My father deeply loved both of his parents, but he also despised all that goodness, the white picket fence and all that. He has a romantic idea of that stuff, but he also hated it because he wanted to smoke cigarettes and live the art life, and they went to church and everything was perfect and quiet and good. It made him a little nutty.

One colleague captured the conflict that can ensue by expressing frustration after several years of unhappy dating: "Why am I being pestered by guys I don't care about, but the men I'm genuinely attracted to seem to show little interest in me?" I told her that she is an 8 chasing after 10s but being pursued by 6s. It dawned on her that pursuing men just outside of her mate-value range was the source of her misery.

Within-species sexual conflict arms races are analogous to arms races between predators and prey.