Quotes About Conflict

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

i don't need you. i never needed you. well, i fucking needed you!

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What's the point?

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

If it's us, she whispered, how come you get to decide? When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn't keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Sometimes you hurt the people you love. And sometimes you love the people who hurt you.

Go fuck yourself Judge. Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.

The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man?

I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest. Her head snaps up, You love me? What? MY face is suddenly on fire. I never said that. You did. I heard it. I said I'd love to. No, Sage says, a grin splitting her face. You didn't. Did I? I'm so tired I don't know what the hell is coming out of my mouth. Which probably means that I don't have the faculties to cover up what I really feel for Sage Singer, with an intensity that terrifies me.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.