Quotes About Conflict

There is no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, mother, let's kill her. That's the only choice.

When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say.

She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.

People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

We will fight the white man, they said. But the white man is not alone, said the chief. He has brought his army.

Wherever there's a man, there's trouble.

It did not seem possible that people would bomb one another rather than talk. What fear was this, that kept silent until announced by the loudest sound on earth, the sound of worlds being destroyed. Was it the fear that ones own terror would be glimpsed, ones own childhood of terror guessed?

The news always sound crazy. People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace. People insane, say Shug. Crazy as betsy bugs. Nothing built this crazy can last.

Bom, você sabe, onde tem homem sempre tem problema.

To work for peace Means First of all Not to be Ignorant About who Has none.

A cerca que nós montou vai te dar uma liberdade certa, mas só se ocê não tiver medo de pegar numa arma. A arma é importante. Porque não sei se amor funciona com todo mundo. Um pouco de amor, um pouco de bala, é assim que acho que ocê devia fazer.

I remember feeling very angry at Betty Friedan. AB: What? Why? Well... she hated housework and wanted women to be independent, but then she's hire other women to do her housework.

As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory, yelled, 'Spare the commons! Kill the lords!' Their words went unheeded.

Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show nothing but honour to her person. The Queen replied that she would not leave it, but if he behaved as a courtly gentlemen, he would quit this place, for he would find plenty of castles to attack other than the one she was in.

The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York

but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47

Thanks to the Wars of the Roses, by the end of the period covered by this book a king's title to the throne had come not to matter as much as his ability to hold on to that throne and to govern effectively.

Henry was right to observe that two players left Wings, and Paul hadn't asked why. But Paul hadn't asked why because he knew the answer. The dispute that led to McCullough's departure mirrored fights he'd had with Harrison over what to play and how to play it, as well as Lennon's complaint, in that painful Rolling Stone interview, about Paul treating them as sidemen. He was, once again, accused by his bandmates of being a control freak.

Smoking is an outward signal of inner turmoil or conflict and most smoking has less to do with nicotine addiction and more to do with the need for reassurance.