Quotes About Conflict

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

There is no love lost between us.

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Naturalmente; hay lágrimas que refrescan y desahogan y lágrimas que encienden y sofocan más.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Vocês homens têm esse lado de conflito interior, que veneram. Por dever de consciência, suportam inimigos e abandonam amigos.

Vitoria il judeca pe Lipan. Avea ea sa-i spuie multe, si le spunea, fara sa miste buzele si limba. I le spunea din launtru, cu banuieli si suferinti vechi.

The roots of interpersonal conflict are often an excessive concern for oneself, and an inability to pay attention to the needs of others. It is sad to see how often people ruin a relationship because they refuse to recognize that they could serve their own interests best by helping others achieve theirs.

creative persons definitely know both extremes and experience both with equal intensity and without inner conflict.

If we are learning to be more assertive, we might inadvertently alienate our friends.

If a person is unwilling to adjust personal goals when starting a relationship, then a lot of what subsequently happens in that relationship will produce disorder in the person's consciousness, because novel patterns of interaction will conflict with old patterns of expectation.

Inner conflict is the result of competing claims on attention.

Ha habido siempre guerras y las habrá siempre, porque los pueblos necesitan poner sus fuerzas a prueba para vivir

When people experience strong emotion, they can't hear logic.

We know we're not the problem, so we may decide that the other person is certifiably crazy.

Contentment in life doesn't come from the absence of conflict; it comes from not giving away our emotional control to the demands of other people. We learn how to be independent in our choices instead of being dependent on what other people do or think.

My parents sent my brother through law school. He graduated. Now he's suing them for wasting seven years of his life.

The car bomb is the poor man's air force.

Eventually I had to call upon Dan's master dumping skills to assist me. Which was of course a bad move. A very bad.move. He told her that I was dead.

we fell out of love, but only one of us was prepared to say it.

How's being in love with your middle brother's girlfriend going?

Joyce, you know you can't pick a fight with everyone who has something to say about us, don't you?' 'I know,' she whispered into the darkness. 'There's too many of them, and not enough hours in the day.' 'It's funny,' said Hubert. 'Until me came to this country me went my whole life thinking me was just plain old Hubert Bird and then me come and find that actually me the devil himself.

There is an old Congo saying that if one watches the Congo River long enough, the bodies of one's enemies will eventually go floating by. Kasavubu had been watching the Congo River as President for the last five years, during which time four Prime Ministers had gone floating by.