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Quotes About Conflict

Hablar de cómo uno se siente realmente no es pelearse —afirmó Raj—, es ser honesto.
~ Deepak Chopra
Complaining increases tension and anger. As a display of hostility, it encourages other people to act hostile in return.
~ Deepak Chopra
No one has ever won the war. Good opposes evil the way the summer sun opposes winter cold, the way light opposes darkness. They are built into the eternal scheme of Nature.
~ Deepak Chopra
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the last word.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Rey Helped The Last Resistance Member on Board The Falcon and Turned, She Felt Her Connection to Kylo Ren Again, Felt Him Still Calling To Her. But She Didn't Heed it. She Closed The Ramp of The Falcon and Closed Herself Off from Kylo Ren
~ Delilah Dawson
Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.
~ Delores Phillips
I know knives and guns are not the answer. Once we get a fight like that started, who will have the power to stop it? How many deaths will be enough?
~ Delores Phillips
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
~ Demosthenes
like the Irish, if we have no external enemy we fight amongst ourselves, and this has been our custom for more than a century.
~ Deneys Reitz
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.)
~ Denis Diderot
I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd even known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.
~ Denis Johnson
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
~ Denise Brodey
After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
~ Denise Caruso
Layla had hardly looked at him since they'd left Chapel Springs except to shoot him disdainful looks. He couldn't seem to say anything right. Even when he'd complimented her appearance—and he'd meant every word—she'd twisted his words.
~ Denise Hunter
It had been so long, a full five months since he'd left. Since she had tossed him from the property. What would she say when she saw him? He feared she'd kick him from her land without giving him a chance to explain. Travis wiped his sweaty palms down the length of his thigh. She'd hear him out whether she wanted to or not. He'd tossed her over his shoulder once before, and he'd do it again. He loved her, and it was time she believed it.
~ Denise Hunter
He does that again, I'll knock him into tomorrow." "We haven't even left the church parking lot. Didn't you hear Pastor's message?" "Didn't Beau?" Between them, Olivia chuckled. "He was loving his neighbor, all right." Shay smothered a laugh, then glanced at Travis. He looked torn between anger and humor. "Yeah, well, he'd better find another neighbor to love. This one's my wife.
~ Denise Hunter
Shay, wait." She shot him a look. He was getting that look a lot these days, and he felt his patience draining. "What? What did I do?" "Move." He could be stubborn too. "Not till you tell me what's wrong." "Nothing's wrong." "You could freeze water with those looks.
~ Denise Hunter
World War II left no life untouched. An estimated 16 million American men had gone off to fight. More than 400,000 lost their lives. Military and civilian deaths worldwide were estimated to be as high as 80 million.
~ Denise Kiernan
There comes a time when only anger is love.
~ Denise Levertov
Why's it called the Battlefield Rest?" "You don't know this area?" "No." "Mary Queen of Scots fought her last battle here. Against her son's army. She lost.
~ Denise Mina
We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.
~ Dennis Chavez
John's call now leads directly into the heart of the drama revealed in the visions on I'attnos (12-22): the cosmic conflict between God, the heavenly woman, and her son/groom and the dragon, the beasts, and the harlot. Everything that precedes Revelation 12 is preliminary to this central drama, preparing us to see our daily struggles as part of the great conflict of the ages.
~ Dennis E. Johnson