Quotes About Conflict

We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn't give. I wanted what he didn't have.

I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.

He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter.

It was as if his whole life had suddenly lodged in his throat, a raw bite he could neither spit out nor swallow.

He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon.

With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.

He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.

If he didn't like the way she did things, he was free to do them different—but he never did them different. He just fussed at her.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

Yet here she was, not with Clara in a theater or a nice hotel in London, but on a bleak prairie, with not even one house within a hundred miles, caring for an old killer who wanted her to cut his ruined leg off so he could get well and kill again. She had studied and educated herself, but she had not escaped.

I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

What part of a man is it best to shoot at?" asked Sean. "His horse," said Jake.

I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. —ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON

You probably used fusion bombs against the Girls.

How do you tell an antagonized kzin from an unantagonized one?

Six times over several centuries, you attacked the worlds of men. Six times you were defeated, having lost approximately two-thirds of your male population in each war. Need I comment on the level of intelligence displayed? No?

When the population of Kzin grows too great, we— Attack the nearest human world.

I think that of the three of us, I alone have no food supply, said the kzin.

A person, Bobby would tell his oldest daughter Kathleen, could be judged by the enemies he made.

The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap.

When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?