Quotes About Conflict

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Burrell stopped his lawyer's protest by raising one large hand, palm out. "It's like

No, señor. The deeper you push the iron into them, the harder they fight you.

Poaching?" Granda raised his hand to rake his fingers through his white hair. "That is our land, Irish land. Our stream and our fish. Cunningham, a man who comes once a year, has it all by the terrible might of the English.

It seems as though the only things causing pain around here are these ridiculous walls we keep building.

One can save one's soul, or one can found or maintain or serve a great and glorious state; but not always both at once.

Yersin không tin l?y m?t giây vào m?y cái ?i?p khúc cách m?ng. Gi?t ng??i ?? nuôi s?ng nh?ng gi?c m?.

Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

Had Britain not declared war on Germany in 1914, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and India would not have followed the Mother Country in. Nor would Britain's ally Japan. Nor would Italy, which London lured in with secret bribes of territory from the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Nor would America have gone to war had Britain stayed out. Germany would have been victorious, perhaps in months. There would have been no Lenin, no Stalin, no Versailles, no Hitler, no Holocaust.

However, if you use the phrase, "Yes, BUT…", you immediately come off as combative. You come off as if you're arguing with them or you are trying to correct them. This turns the conversation into a power struggle. Instead of an ally, you come off as an adversary obviously trying to take control of the agenda.

The longer you put something off, the more tension builds inside, and the more passive aggressive behavior occurs. If you address a difficult conversation sooner rather than later you can avoid these little daggers that have the ability to end friendships and relationships.

The four styles are passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive.

Most conflict stems from either an emotional reaction or a fundamental misunderstanding.

Just like Republicans have Democrats, vampires have the sun, and cats have everything under the sun, I have natural enemies.

It seems at times that strife can no more be separated from monotheism than stripes from a tiger.

The automatic use of Du, even to strangers if they were friends of friends, was very surprising. Sie, it seemed, meant relegation to the outer darkness and people had been known to fight with swords about the matter.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict.

the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems.

Members of teams that tend to avoid conflict must occasionally assume the role of a "miner of conflict"—someone who extracts buried disagreements within the team and sheds the light of day on them. They must have the courage and confidence to call out sensitive issues and force team members to work through them. This requires a degree of objectivity during meetings and a commitment to staying with the conflict until it is resolved. Some

I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

Alice: Did you phone her, beg her to come back - when you went for lovely walks? Dan: Yes. Alice: You're a piece of shit.

Hello there dandelions, fuck off! Chop go the heads with a cut of the stick excuse me just what do you think you're doing clip clip chop chop aaargh! what the fuck is going on where's our heads? Hee-yup!, I said and away again.