Quotes About Conflict

Financial partnerships are combustible affairs that frequently blow up as a result of personality clashes and disputes over money.

Eliza's death, far from putting the whole situation to rest, only inflamed John's feelings anew, complicating his stormy relationship with his father.

Despite the chronic friction between them, Big Bill continued to borrow money from his son and by the end of the century still had a $64,000 loan outstanding—more than $1 million in today's money.

Unable to compromise on business principles, Rockefeller chose to jeopardize family relations instead.

For Rockefeller, Rice was nothing but a blackmailer.

On the night of April 18, 1775, eight hundred British troops marched out of Boston to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seize a stockpile of patriot munitions in Concord.

tried to make it appear that we are attacking a race

On July 5, the Second Continental Congress made one final feeble effort to ward off further hostilities when it endorsed the Olive Branch Petition, urging a negotiated solution to the conflict with England. The document professed loyalty to the king and tactfully blamed his "artful and cruel" ministers.

Pierpont feared a replication of the railroad chaos, with overbuilding and price wars.

Yet financial differences quickly soured his relations with Morgan.

Once again, he hinted at litigation.

And both sides would prove right.

Rockefeller and Charles clashed repeatedly over this question.

If he showed generosity toward Frank, it deepened his brother's dependence and bred anger; if he didn't give him money, Frank threw a tantrum.

It seems that Frank alienated virtually everyone in the building and was increasingly ostracized.

Although Hanna urged him to drop the suit, Watson would not relent.

Rockefeller kept renewing his earnest plea that Margaret be educated in New York City, and it became a sore point with him that Charles refused to oblige him.

One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.

blustering contractor stormed into his office and launched into a snarling tirade against him while he sat hunched over his writing desk and didn't look up until the man had exhausted himself. Then, spinning about in his swivel chair, he looked up and coolly asked, "I didn't catch what you were saying. Would you mind repeating that?

George Clinton, his future political nemesis.

Many southerners feared that the New Englanders were a rash, obstinate people, prone to extremism, and worried that an army led by a New England general might someday turn despotic and conquer the South. The appointment of George Washington would soothe such fears and form a perfect political compromise between North and South.

He added the important caveat that the war had been "a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.

leaving the Morgan family angry and bewildered.

One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumpsuit is crying while another woman screams at her. And what I'm thinking is maybe it's time to halt all human reproduction. Let God or evolution or wathever put us here in the first place start again from scratch, because this isn't working.