Quotes About Conflict

Everyone thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions... Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate.

What was the point in all the fighting with gauntlets if they were only going to stop fighting the moment the outnumbered fools decided the fight was over? Rowl flicked his tail in exasperation. Humans.

But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

It's tough to say no to peace, to the comfort of it. All through history, people have traded wealth, children, land, and lives to buy it. But peace can't be bought, can it, chief, prime minister? The only ones offering to sell it always want something more. They lie.

Those who had never seen a tribe of cats at war, or at least playing war games, would look upon what came next as utter chaos.

An old hatred. The hardest kind to resist.

Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either." "Why not? You've done it before. And you've got a new gun and everything.

Susan's fingers wandered, and her eyes sparkled. "Your mouth says no," she purred, "but this says yes." I went up on my toes, and swallowed, trying to keep my balance and get her hand off me at the same time. "That thing is always saying something stupid," I told her.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Thinks like oil and Water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television. ... Maybe some things aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan.

He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks.

the border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention.

Love will be the downfall of God himself.

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier

He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.

That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane. Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then?

Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore.

Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down," said Murphy in a calm, level voice.

My knuckles ached to meet his nose.

The real war happened when you weren't looking.