Quotes About Conflict

I heard someone say that this was a very exclusive war.

From that moment, events rushed on with breath-taking speed. I spent the two and a half months until my arrest in tormented conflict between reason and the kind of foreboding which Lermontov called "prophetic anguish.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Character is plot, plot is character.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.' 'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Just as he still cared more for her than for any other creature, so did he more intensely and frequently hate her.

She hated the beach, resented the places where she had played planet to Dick's sun.

It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as always, they were sorry for each other for the wrong things at the wrong time...

Dick tried to plunge over the Alpine crevasse between the sexes.

The war spirit's getting into me again. I have a hundred years of Ohio love behind me and I'm going to bomb out this trench.

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

Two out of every three professional officers considered that wars were made for armies and not armies for wars.

I did not think - I was a battleground for the thoughts of many men.

He was drafted early in the fall, and the examining doctor made no mention of low blood-pressure. It was all very purposeless and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as always, they were sorry for each other for the wrong things at the wrong times…. They

I did not think- I was a battleground for the thoughts of many men; rather was I one of those desirable but impotent countries over which the great powers surge back and forth.

Yes—well they were having words and she tossed some sand in his face. So naturally he sat on top of her and rubbed her face in the sand. We were—electrified.

I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to hm, entirely justified.

Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.