Quotes About Conflict

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

All conflict comes from attachment.

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

The girl or the world, you see someone gotta lose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose?

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship.