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Quotes About Conflict

A member of the Archery Club tries to say that we are all foreigners and we should give the country back to the Native Americans, but she's buried under disagreement.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The fight simmers gently on the back of the stove all afternoon, the bubbles rising up and popping, ingredients falling to the bottom, then surfacing again. It doesn't boil over until the sun sets.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain. The captain I had to obey.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
What are these scars from? she asked. They're battle wounds, I replied. She looked at me for a long time. Who were you battling? Myself.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Ik kan er niet mee ophouden, maar ik kan er ook niet mee doorgaan.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Mom filed for divorce. In the counselor's office, my parents claimed that we would always be a family because of me, but things would be better now. No more yelling, no more arguments. By tearing our family apart, they were actually making it stronger. By the time I figured out that they were not making any sense, the family counseling was done and Dad was walking down the aisle with Jennifer.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
~ Laurie R. King
When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.
~ Lawrence Block
It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.
~ Lawrence Durrell
In marriage they legitimized despair," and "Every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.
~ Lawrence Durrell
In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
~ Julio Cortazar
I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle.
~ Mark Richt
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
~ Alice Walker
I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
~ Gerald Scarfe
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
~ Amanda Plummer
Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!
~ Jeff Belanger
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.
~ Pete Wentz, Gray
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.
~ Richard Branson
I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
~ John F. Kerry
Funny thing about the monster.The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Crank
GreenHollyWood blocked me on skype..., and why???I can't make black jokes???So you can make, but I can't so sad!
~ Deyth Banger
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow