Quotes About Conflict

Good. I wouldn't want you to fall madly in love with me. That would make things very complicated when it comes to your beloved Shadow, wouldn't it? Who'd win the battle for your heart then? The servant or the king?

I gritted my teeth. "I don't like you." "My heart is breaking." "Screw you." He shrugged and then grimaced as if the wound on his shoulder caused him massive pain. "We can do that, too, if you like, but I'll need to be unchained first. Then again, we can bring the chains with us if you're into that sort of thing.

I really hate you sometimes." "There's a fine line between love and hate." I glared at him. "Dream on.

Sorry," I said. "Don't be sorry." She sent a sneer in the direction of Colin who'd rejoined his friends on the other side of the theatre. "The fact he's still breathing isn't your fault.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

i'm never going to understand the Barrani." "You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either." "Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.

Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?

We already know that when two don't agree, they can't walk together. Opens the door to confusion.

submittin' to my husband ain't never been my strong point. I be tryin', Lord knows I do. And it help when you got a good husband. But the promise God made in the garden of Eden, about puttin' enmity between the husband and wife, He wasn't lyin'! Every husband and wife have they times when they get out of line.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

He told the Washington Post that "We've reduced our exposure and we've significantly reduced our casualties," he said. "I just don't think the investment of 3,000 troops is too much to keep what we've gained in 20 years."

What is happening now is not a surprise. It was predicted. If anything, it is happening faster than predicted, said Mick Mulroy, the Pentagon's former top Middle East policy official and an ABC News analyst. We are not seeing the worst of it. The Taliban is not only taking territory, they are killing people with the weapons we provided to Afghan security forces, said Mulroy, a former CIA officer and Marine infantryman who served in Afghanistan.

Who knows why people split up? Dirty knickers on the bathroom shower rail once too often, these things get huge, don't they?

The amount of time we spend thinking, criticizing, judging, worrying, calculating, fighting, hating, arguing, is not funny. Considering one third of our lives we spend sleeping and the rest is consumed by non-creative processes mentioned above.What a waste of life. Let's also stop becoming paranoid humanoids and instead simply be human beings living in joy. Mickeymize your life.

Boetie said he would leave the house after a fight with his wife and walk the streets looking for a prostitute. He hated prostitutes and considered it a sin that they should charge money for a gift they had received from their Creator. In his opinion, they did not deserve to live.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.