Quotes About Conflict

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

In a world where the latest app can sell for billions of dollars, there are plenty of ways to provide a minimum of humanity for those caught in conflict, who never had the opportunity to reach their potential in the first place.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

Use plot to buttress a story.

Kajol as Vasundhara is a tough cookie. Raghu and her world collides, and they have different ideologies. The plot revolves around their core beliefs and their disagreement with each other.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.