Quotes About Conflict

there was a fold between them—a wrinkle in their relationship, in their universe—and it was big, and came between them.

Things are really fucked up right now. We hardly see each other anymore and when we do, we go to sleep on opposite sides of the bed

She couldn't imagine ever having sex with Kevin again. The very idea repulsed her.

Murder and marriage is not a happy mix.

The trouble is, you and Mrs. Lynde don't understand one another, she explained. That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other. I didn't like Mrs. Lynde at first either; but as soon as I came to understand her I learned to.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

The more closely we examine actual language, the greater becomes the conflict between it and our requirement. The conflict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming vacuous. — We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction, and so, in a certain sense, the conditions are ideal; but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!

But I now felt that I could no longer patch things up, either with myself or with anyone.

Credi che non sorgano impeti di sentimenti anche in me? Ma io non li lascio scatenare; io li afferro, li domo; li inchiodo. Hai visto le belve e il domatore nei serragli? Ma non credere: io, che pure sono il domatore, poi rido di me perché mi vedo come tale in questa parte che mi sono imposta verso i miei sentimenti; e ti giuro che qualche volta mi verrebbe voglia di farmi sbranare da una di queste belve...

Sí! En eso consiste todo», pensaba, «en ese atropello. Cada uno quiere imponer a los otros el mundo que lleva dentro como si fuese el de afuera, y que todos deban verlo a su modo, y que los otros no puedan ser sino como los ve él».

Spanish! His family didn't even like speaking Spanish to him. He tried, and they insisted on answering him in English. Though they knew perfectly well that he spoke Spanish as well as they did and better than their children did. Each side had something to prove, and none of them knew what it was.

Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.

I love you too much to let you do something that wrong. Even if I might hate you for it? Even if, she agreed, her voice scarcely a whisper. And that, Sarah, is why I love you so.

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Alfie,' Katherine said quietly, but was sorry she'd spoken when she saw that intense look come into his eyes. Oh, this was terrible but what could she do about it? Certainly nothing at this

In the 1880s the focus of the feud had been adultery; in the 1890s the focus shifted to the divided treasure the poet had left behind. Who had the right to possess her? Who had the right to say what she was?

As Mabel inserts herself between husband and wife, and then between poet and 'Sister', and as a fissure in the family cracks and then breaks open early in 1885

Austin's 'entire disappointment' in the marriage, and his entrapment, as a fly caught in a spider's web.

Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.

Damn it, but she hated it when her inner brown bunny came out to play. The

It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.

You touch—I kill!" the Indian growled ferociously.

L'insulto é l'arma del debole.