Quotes About Conflict

Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.

My whole heart was so full of Simon that even my pity for Stephen wasn't quite real - it was only something I felt I ought to feel , more from my head than my heart . And I knew I ought to pity him all the more because I could pity him so little

The United States has destabilized the peace of the whole world.

Make no mistake about it,' George W. Bush told the American people the day after the attacks. 'We will win.' We haven't. The world is not less, but more, dangerous. It's one thing to launch a war with certain goals and not to attain those goals. It's another entirely to declare war and achieve the exact opposite of your stated intentions. If there is anything worse than losing a war, surely this is it?

I was but something changed. It was Rian and her bullshit." Neveah stood up and rubbed her steadily growing belly. "Or Jigga and his big ass imprint. You

I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

L'azione è verità, e la verità vacilla quando la guerra finisce e gli abitanti del villaggio sono liberi di tornare ai loro campi. Sopravviviamo, e siamo nuovamente sconfitti.

The shallower our arguments, the more intense we became.

Fee-uck, man. This game is still on. I get that sixty-two yet. I get his ass and whip it into shape. Damnright. I get that shitpiss sixty-two and beat his black ass into the ground. He's white, I said. I know he's white. They're all white. Everybody's white. Black fucks.

It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.

Nagasaki was an embarrassment to the art of war

You're more than a fair-weather friend - you're a true enemy.

Anytime a church chooses to move forward, there will be conflict, because we are in a war.

It is when the disciplines operate independently of one another that major clashes and deficiencies occur.

your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there have been other wars since, better-publicized ones, more expensive ones perhaps, but our war is the one I'll always remember. Our war is the one that means war to me.

His characters may be cardboard, but each has a clear, uncomplicated purpose. Every moment of the story contributes to building conflict.

I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.