Quotes About Conflict

Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

Sometime soon, I will deal with the fae who have offended me in such a way that others avoid annoying me for another century or two. That's a good plan for the next few weeks, I think. Findest du nicht auch?

Her lips twisted. "I don't like you," she told me, but there was a lie in her voice, and she stopped talking, looking almost surprised.

You come home, Daddy," she told him. "I love my mother, but if I have to live with her for very long, one of us will commit a homicide. And you bring Mercy and the pip-squeak back.

For her he shook like an alcoholic in need of his gin, because he felt she needed to know her options, no matter how his wolf felt about losing his mate. Her knight, indeed.

It's bad to have an enemy with the kinds of resources these people apparently have—but it is infinitely worse to have crazy people as enemies.

But I know war. And every day I can hold it off is valuable to me, and to its victims.

The Marrok knows," he whispered. "He always does. Everyone else believed I was the same, just like always. My father knew something was wrong, that I wasn't right. I was going to leave—but then you came.

Not for the first time, he wished for a more facile tongue. His brother could sometimes change the Marrok's mind—but he never had. This time, Charles knew his father was wrong.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Very well. You may help me to exterminate the society of wizards.

If you brought me out driving just so you could insult me-" "Oh, not just to insult you.

I don't mean to make you mad, I just keep doing it by accident.

How goes the battle?

How's the battle?

he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.

Controllers think differing ideas and views are personal opposition to be rejected and destroyed. And, since Controllers identify themselves with their prescriptions, it becomes important to them that others be dissuaded of theirs. Their success is measured in conversions.

People who act against others truly act in a backwards way, doing the opposite of what they would need to do to realize their goal.

Would a white supremacist group bond together against an African-American group if the African-American group magically transformed into whites?

Since name calling is outrageously abusive, it should be responded to with outrage.

enthusiastic about something when she is suddenly thrown off balance, or shocked by her mate.

The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.

But sometimes, I hate myself for hating him. Simply because he is an ordinary boy.

I don't know what this is, this Revolution. But I think maybe this guy not too smart. The rich, they chase you if you steal their things. Poor people, they the one who share.   Three