Quotes About Conflict

Jo vanished without a word. Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, 'Oh, do somebody go down quick; John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy. And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa. And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman.

If every one agreed, we should never get on.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful.

Now I've offended him. Well, if it does him good, I'm glad, if it makes him hate me, I'm sorry, but it's true, and I can't take back a word of it -Amy

I don't intend to run away from a girl. Jo can't prevent my seeing her, and I shall stay and do it as long as I like, interrupted Laurie in a defiant tone. Not if you are the gentleman I think you. I'm disappointed, but the girl can't help it, and the only thing left for you to do is to go away for a time. Where will you go?

She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability... It shall be as you please, Mrs. Chester. I'll give up my place here at once, and attend to the flowers, if you like.

Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned," exclaimed Meg angrily as she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.

Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes," said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.

Verdad que estamos bien? ¡Fuera, mamarracho! ¡Cállese usted la boca! ¡Dame un beso, rica! ¡Ah, ah!

Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned, exclaimed Meg angrily

she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

You said, the other day, you thought we were a deal happier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.

She tore the letter to atoms.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.

An enemy has to be defeated in battle, but an adversary's different. You must outwit an adversary.

It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.

On July 16, the thick gloom finally lifted at Philadelphia when delegates agreed to a grand bargain, the so-called Connecticut Compromise, proposed by Roger Sherman of Connecticut and others. The major conflicts at the convention had perhaps hinged less on the question of federal versus state power than on how federal representation was apportioned among the states.

As such, he presided over these sordid municipal skirmishes, albeit keeping a sanitary distance.

This transaction required Bill's signature, but John's relations with his father were so uneasy that he had to ask brother Frank and Pierson Briggs to act as intermediaries.

General John Cadwalader, who fired a ball through Conway's mouth that came out the back of his head.