Quotes About Conflict

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.

Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.

It's just nature," I point out, wiping my lab bench, the sweet smell of the ethanol solvent. "Put animals in a small, closed space, and the one with the sharpest nails, the pointiest teeth wins." He gins. "Or maybe it's just like musical chairs?" It's a luxury to view it so lightly. But I nod. It's best never to let them see your teeth.

No way," he said, shaking his head, shaking the image of Lise, bare-legged, her skirt hitched high, from his thoughts. "Lise, she's a sister to me." "Oh," she said, fingertips making circles just above the waist of her skirt. Wider and wider circles. "A sister," he repeated. He looked at her. There was something scratching again, in the corner above his eye, like those metal probes at the dentist clawing at your teeth.

Yes, she was his angel. But can't you guess, my love? She was his demon too.

I will not tell her that you sold our family home in Newport without telling me and then left me in the cold with nothing because you were so jealous that Charles preferred me. I will not do this because you are all May has left. She

he'd rather get shot than navigate all these...feelings.

I just said it was romantic. Some people like that." Nick sat, too. "Like you?" She lifted her chin. "Maybe I do." Nick's laugh for once didn't urge her to join him. "Well then, you're fucking the wrong guy.

Feeling pressured into doing something I didn't want to do for people I didn't want to please.

Desire didn't always mean a choice was easier to make. Sometimes it was harder, because it meant so much more.

Elliott took a long, deep breath. "Look. We seem to have had a misunderstanding.…" "Really?" Eyes snapping fire, Simone faced him. "Really. A misunderstanding. What part of 'I don't want to see you again, and I don't want you to come to my office' did I misunderstand? Because it seemed pretty fucking crystal to me." He winced. "No. That part was right.

Heath said, cold as ice, cold as a void, so cold it burned her worse than any fire. "Don't you know? Not wanting to and not being able to are not the same things.

I didn't want to love him, but I didn't want him not to love me.

Fuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuu," Keisha said.

I love you. And I want you, too. But. However. Unfortunately ...

there's too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

All this girl-on-girl hate is exhausting. Sometimes I wish we could dose on testosterone, punch each other in the face, and get it over with already.

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.

Just thinking about all the drama gets my tubes in a twist.

words can serve as a bomb or a balm..." -Harmony

They love their God and they love their guns. They will shoot you first and pray for forgiveness later.

If you were a girl who loved above all to read and write and who could not imagine an adulthood in which these activities did not hold a central place, you probably knew even before puberty that you were headed for conflict.