Quotes About Conflict

Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

That's – that's not fair,' Sadie said, her voice trembling. 'Tempting me with destruction.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Life is a struggle, but what most people don't realize is that our struggle, like Jacob's, is really a struggle with God! We want to be God, and there's no way we are going to win that struggle.

When you don't know whom you're trying to please, you cave in to three things: criticism (because you are concerned about what others will think of you), competition (because you worry about whether somebody else is getting ahead of you), and conflict (because you're threatened when anyone disagrees with you).

Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base decisions, allocate your time, and use your resources. You will tend to make choices based on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at that moment. People who don't know their purpose try to do too much — and that causes stress, fatigue, and conflict.

During conflict, it is tempting to complain to a third party rather than courageously speak the truth in love to the person you're upset with. This makes the matter worse. Instead, you should go directly to the person involved.

It was war itself that was evil, not men.

Jimmy, the baby produced to celebrate the peace after the war to end all wars, was about to fight in another one.

Have you? Forgiven them? Had he? Theoretically perhaps, but not in his heart, where truth resided.

At the twisted heart of every war were the innocents. "Collateral damage" they called it these days, but those civilians hadn't been collateral, they had been the targets. That was what war had become. It was no longer warrior killing warrior, it was people killing other people. Any people.

What a good husband you are, Nancy said afterward, always taking your wife's side rather than your mother's. It's the side of reason I am on, Teddy said. It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

Some might count sheep. Teddy counted the towns and cities he had tried to destroy, that had tried to destroy him. Perhaps they had succeeded.

maybe I don't want to eat bloody coriander!' She came to an abrupt halt, whiplashing the baby in the pushchair. She turned round and said, 'Well, maybe I do,' and glared at him for the longest time, wishing she had the woodcutting axe with her, the axe that

Didn't you hear, Jackson?" Julia said. "The class war's over. Everyone lost.")

The war was a clumsily stitched

War did indeed make strange bedfellows of people.

It had nothing in common with what he and Margaret did in bed, where he always felt he was imposing an indignity on her and she was trying to pretend he wasn't.

The rest of the Cokers gravitated rapidly towards the casualty. They were naturally drawn to trouble.

He never imagined, when his daughter was small and infinitely, eternally lovable, that he would ever develop a combative relationship with her.

It was a relief to everyone, especially his wife, when, three years after he retired, he dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of an argument with a neighbor who had parked his car in front of their house.

Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. Thanks a lot, he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-