Quotes About Conflict

Evil will Never win from Righteousness

Even as a child, I understood my family was a casualty of war. It could not be helped.

To roughly paraphrase Paul, why do I do what I don't want to do and don't do what I want to do?

I'm th' roughest ol' cob you ever seen when it comes t' mindin.' That's why I've fought th' Lord s' long, it meant mindin' 'im if I was t' foller 'im. It's about wore me out, fightin' 'im. Not t' say I don't respect 'im, I do. But I don't want t' mind 'im.

In his bachelor's heart of hearts, he loved pie with an intensity that alarmed him. Yet, when he was offered seconds, he usually refused. "Wouldn't you like another piece of this nice coconut pie, Father?" he might be asked. "No, I don't believe I'd care for anymore," he'd say. An outright lie!

Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of purpose.

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

Als ze verder slenteren, zegt Dirk verontschuldigend tegen Michiel: 'Het heeft immers geen zin erover te praten.' 'Nee,' zegt Michiel, 'het heeft geen zin. Eén ding heeft maar zin.' 'Wat dan?' 'Nooit meer in een oorlog vechten, alleen nog tegen oorlog.' 'Zo is het,' zegt Dirk.

Vele jaren zijn intussen voorbijgegaan. Michiel is nu driënveertig. Hij heeft de kranten goed gelezen en hij weet dat er sinds die avondwandeling met Dirk gevochten is in Indonesië, Joegoslavië, Hongarije, Noord-Ierland, China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodja, Kongo, Algerije, Israël, Jordanië, Ecuador, Dominica, Cuba, Honduras, Mozambique, Kashmir, Bengalen, en nog veel, veel landen meer.

Opposing redeployment US and Dutch ambassadors were making more robust action impossible.

Ambassador Albright reportedly threatened to resign over what she called "softly-softly" pact with Miloševi?.

Want medelijden is de ergste vijand van de liefde.

I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?" "Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.

Men swung wildly at each other, mostly missing their intended target and hitting the women, who had handfuls of each other's hair and were bent over turning in a circle like performing some insane dance. It was a bar fight without the bar.

It was okay though," Gertie said. "Jeb said she wasn't a pleasant woman anyway, so we vacuumed the rug and deposited her in the flower bed out front." "I was beginning to question why we're friends when you told us about the lights," I said. "But you sort of redeemed the whole thing with the efficient flower bed disposal part of the story." "I'm guessing Jeb's mother might feel differently," Ida Belle said.

I will never understand a desire for a reckoning so strong that you burn down your own house to get it,

Carter, who had scratches across his forehead, stepped in front of me and raised an eyebrow. "I'm not going to tell you to hold fire," he said. "But you have to start with either Gertie or that cat.

They found that the day after a parental skirmish, most moms were able to compartmentalize and reported a quick recovery, and even an improved relationship with their child. But fathers had a much greater tendency to let the negative marital tension spill over into the rest of the family. Insidiously, the conflict from these parental fights would resurface on the first or even second day after the fight, in the form of friction between father and child.

I grabbed Sylvie's hand and raced downstairs, passing Tom on the couch. His blank eyes were bathed in the soft glow of his smartphone. He quickly knotted his forehead in a feigned look of earnest importance, as if he was attending to some pressing work matter. But I knew exactly what he was doing. He was playing SocialChess with some guy in the Philippines. I was just playing for a minute, he tells me later. During our fight.

Among siblings, deep affection and aggravation generally go hand in hand.

True enough," said Mrs. Copperfield, bringing her fist down on the table and looking very mean. "I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I've wanted to do for years. I know I am as guilty as I can be, but I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

The Titans were gone. They had clashed their last.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.