Quotes About Conflict

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

En tiempos de paz se observa las barrigas de las mujeres. En tiempos de guerra, los movimientos de los poderosos.

How old are you Johnny she asked. Sixteen. And what's that-a boy or a man? He laughed. A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

The first of the tea ships, the Dartmouth

THE fourteenth of April, 1775.

Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we'll demonstrate against during the day.

When you pick a partner, you pick a story, and then you find yourself in a play you never auditioned for. And that is when the narratives clash.

Instead, many of my patients describe swinging back and forth in a rapid succession of contradictory emotions. "I love you! I hate you! Hold me! Don't touch me! Take your shit and get out! Don't leave me! You scumbag! Do you still love me? Fuck you! Fuck me!" Such a blitz of reactions is to be expected and is likely to go on for some time.

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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break. —Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

The president can say we're a country at war all he wants. We're not. The military is at war. And the military families are at war. Everybody else is shopping….

The connectors have gained the upper hand. We isolationists languish in the caves. Take

Cochise : – We have fought long and as best we could against you. We have killed ten White Eyes for every Apache, but when one white man dies, many take his place. When one Apache dies, there is no one to take his place. We were no longer Indah , the living . We were now Indeh ... the dead .

I know that those who hate have good reason to do so. But why should we always have to choose the cheapest and easiest way? It has been brought home forcibly to me here how every atom of hatred added to the world makes it an even more inhospitable place.

For there is hate as well as love, she supposed, in the coming together and continuing of our lives.

They raised their voices, cried out back and forth, as if grief could be fabricated into an argument to comfort itself with.

1st KEEPER: Who said nobody and nothing could ever belong to us? 2nd KEEPER: What a breach between heart and head! 1st KEEPER: What a contradiction! 2nd KEEPER: He doesn't believe what he thinks or think what he believes.

Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).

God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap!

Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!

Let him come! I have seen them come before -- at Margesfontein, Spion Kiopje, Modder River. Stepping into battle, left right left right, waving their silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they was, and with mine rifle I kills them so easy!

Az a fura érzésem támadt, hogy a háborúban mindig ugyanazt az embert kell újra meg újra meggyilkolnunk, míg végül rá fogok ébredni, hogy én magam vagyok az az ember!

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.