Quotes About Conflict

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

Girls... they test you, and I don't like that. I don't get it. They do things, and then when you respond, they get mad. It's so confusing, I can't even explain it.

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.

Explosions are not comfortable.

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.

Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

I used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, 'Keep to the budget, be responsible,' and Hyde would be like ,'Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.'

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.

I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.

When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace.

I was able to come out to my family, but other than that I couldn't come out to co-workers or to friends because of what that would mean for my military life and my career. That made my life difficult, because I felt like I was constantly conflicted and at war with myself every day that I faced people.

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.