Quotes About Conflict

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Fighting with your best friend is NO fun.

definitely not best friends

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

There was a siege going on: it had been going on for a long time, but the besieged themselves were the last to take it seriously.

The worst description I ever read was by a best-selling novelist who sized up World War II this way: "The war was just terrible.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn't ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next. He was at war now, his loyalty tested at every turn.

That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against yourself.

I was falling in love, and it was wonderful, and it was awful.

He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next.

And if I tried to talk to him or, God forbid, ask him to take it easy on the whisky, he'd lash out. "Oh, sod off, Beryl. It's all easy for you, isn't it?

But I'm not sure I believe in wars anymore. They only make ghosts and they don't change anything.

After years of pelting me with advice and restrictions, Emma had nothing left to say now. Nor did I. I could barely remember why I had fought her so much. She seemed just as lost as I was.

You're trampling my pasture." I

How is it I'm the enemy when she's the other woman? That seems very unfair, doesn't it?

Lower your voice," he warned, but I'd had enough. As he reached for my arm again, I wrenched myself free and nearly flattened Boy Long in the process. I hadn't even seen him. Glancing between Jock and me quickly, gauging the situation, Boy said, "Is everything all right

D had formed the committee a few months before, part of a new effort to combat the old problem of just who had a right to Kenya, and why. White settlers had always been keen on self-rule, which amounted to something more like total domination of the territory.

The stickiest sorts of violence are often incredibly intimate, Will. They require trust. They take time.

reached behind me to adjust the stockings again. "Your mother doesn't like me." "She just doesn't want to lose me. That's how mothers are.

The Philadelphia Story, but

All of that should have sent me running in the opposite direction, but I felt only intrigued, and then dazzled by his hunger for me, and the desperation we felt trying to be together when it was impossible. His wife, Marcelle, wouldn't grant a divorce.

Amnesty International should list all daughters as prisoners of war.

The Indians are what we have made them," said Dr. Reed. "Every war between us and the red man has been precipitated by broken treaties. If they have attacked the settlers, it is because we have made them what they are.