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Quotes About Conflict

I'd been right before. Ambrose wasn't half the bastard I thought he was. He was ten times the bastard.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold. And as soon as I felt it, I realized it had been there inside me for a long while, crystallizing, like a pond slowly freezing solid over a long winter night.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavours of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Solo los bárbaros y los locos disfrutan con el combate.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Why do you need this tongue if a sword will do?
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Bak?n ama öyle s?k görülen bir ÅŸey ki. İyi olan ne varsa ölüyor, çünkü zaman?n ak??? iyinin kar??s?nda. Ve bu ak?? önüne ne ç?karsa ezip geçiyor.
~ Patrick Süskind
but you can't live, live with it either, never, no human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitome of chaos and anarchy
~ Patrick Süskind
Her zaman özlediÄŸi ÅŸey, insanlar?n kendisini sevmesi yani, ulaÅŸt??? anda dayan?lmaz bir ÅŸey olup ç?km??t?, çünkü o kendisi sevmiyordu insanlar?, onlardan nefret ediyordu. Birdenbire doyumu hiçbir zaman sevgide deÄŸil, nefrette bulmuÅŸ olduÄŸunu anlad?, nefrette ve kendinden nefret edilmesinde.
~ Patrick Süskind
You just bought yourself a world of trouble." "But I ordered one of peace and love. I'd like to return the one of trouble or get a full refund," I said. "I'm pretty sure I have the receipt somewhere.
~ Unknown
Few worlds tend to have more than one sentient race. At some point in their history, worlds with more than one smart species have the tendency to do dumb things like try to wipe out their competition. I'm told that's why there are no Neanderthals left on Earth and the dragons left for space.
~ Unknown
You don't pull out a rocket launcher because some drunk throws a punch at you. That's overkill," said Paddy, referring
~ Unknown
It is a sin to hurt someone, so by avoiding violence we do not sin ourselves and by stopping an opponent from hurting us, we prevent him from sinning.
~ Unknown
Good intelligence is crucial to winning a military campaign. Of course, as a rule, if those in charge of a military actually had good intelligence, there would be a lot less war.
~ Unknown
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
~ Patti Smith
He didn't have a religious or pious relationship with the church; it was aesthetic. The thrill of the battle between good and evil attracted him, perhaps because it mirrored his interior conflict, and revealed a line that he might yet need to cross.' p.16
~ Patti Smith
and men falling like chess pieces carved from the weight of centuries of indiscretions and the slaughter of worshippers and the guns and the guns and the guns and the guns.
~ Patti Smith
He had told me I had nothing to worry about, but in the end I did. Yet I understood why he couldn't tell me. I think having to define his impulses and confine his identity in terms of sexuality was foreign to him. His drives toward men were consuming but I never felt loved any less. It wasn't easy for him to sever our physical ties, I knew that.
~ Patti Smith
I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
~ Patty Hearst
To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did that second thought destroy the first thought than a third thought rose up to destroy the second.
~ Paul Auster
Peace on earth, good will toward men. Piss on earth, good will toward none.
~ Paul Auster
He aquí el dilema, por un lado queremos sobrevivir, adaptarnos, aceptar las cosas tal cual están; pero, por otro lado, llegar a esto implica destruir todas aquellas cosas que alguna vez nos hicieron seres humanos.
~ Paul Auster
Such were the contradictions of manhood, Ferguson discovered. Your heart could be broken, but your gonads kept telling you to forget about your heart.
~ Paul Auster
a story about two friends who stop being friends because of a dispute in which both of their arguments are wrong
~ Paul Auster