Quotes About Conflict

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

Opposing the father is no picnic and not opposing the father is no picnic—that's what he was discovering.

They were not the only couple on earth for whom mistrust and mutual aversion furnished the indestructible foundation for a long-standing union.

I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of yours or see your smug fucking lily-white face.

She wanted to collapse and be rescued, and she wanted to be heroic and prevail, and she seemed to hate him most for reminding her, merely by taking it all in, that she could manage neither.

All of European literature springs from a fight.

Estas siempre enfadada con tu mama?" "La odio." "Por qué, Linda?" "Ella me odia a mí." "Her pressure's 120 over 100," said Sabbath.

He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.

The outrage, the disgust inspired in my parents by the gentiles, was beginning to make some sense: the goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon us! Only what about the hatred we lavished upon them?

é straziante la violenza, quando scoppia in una casa: come vedere i vestiti su un albero dopo un'esplosione. puoi essere pronto a vedere la morte, ma non i vestiti sull'albero. E tutto per il fatto che mio padre non riusciva a capire che la natura di Alvin non era mai stata riformabile, nonostante i predicozzi e le minacce che l'affetto gli ispirava: tutto perché lo aveva preso in casa per salvarlo da ciò che semplicemente era nella sua natura diventare.

El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.

If I know anything about periodontists, she's thought of strangling you more than once. In your sleep.

The law of living: fluctuation. For every thought a counter-thought, for every urge a counterurge. No wonder you either go crazy and die or decide to disappear.

the me who's not me encamped boldly in Jewish Jerusalem while I go underground with the Arabs.

They lived harmoniously with Arabs for a thousand years. But the white Israelis have taught them that, too—how to hate the Arabs and how to hate themselves. The white Israelis have turned them into their thugs.

But it is Hitler to whom the entire world must be grateful tonight for striking at the Soviet Union.

recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.

All through the Bible, especially in the Prophets, we see a conflict raging within God. On the one hand God passionately loved the people he had made; on the other hand, God had a terrible urge to destroy the evil that enslaved them. On the cross, God resolved that inner conflict, for there God's Son absorbed the destructive force and transformed it into love. Disappointment with God

Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years," wrote Martin Luther. "Eve would say, 'You ate the apple,' and Adam would retort, 'You gave it to me.