Quotes About Conflict

Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.

Theron thought he could solve problems by brushing them aside as though they didn't exist. But they do exist, they still exist, and unless responsible people do something about them, our land is in for fresh disaster, brother against brother, black against white.

When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.

Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers

Your planet does not deal gently with lovers of peace.

Charles Wallace nodded. "Mad Dog Branzillo was born in Vespugia. But right here, where we stand, Madoc came and married Zyll and made the roses burn for peace. What happened to the Wind People? Where are they now?" "They were lovers of peace," Gaudior replied shortly. "Your planet does not deal gently with lovers of peace.

She sat icy and withdrawn. She had hoped he would touch her, put his arms around her. Now she felt she would kill him if he tried.

There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. —OLIVER SACKS

It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.

Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions. (Love on a Gunboat)

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

All war is absurd. For thousands of years, human beings have chosen to settle their differences by obliterating one another. And when we are not obliterating one another, we spend an enormous amount of time and attention coming up with better ways to obliterate one another the next time around. It's all a little strange, if you think about it.

the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. Even within the Four Horsemen, in fact, there is one emotion that he considers the most important of all: contempt. If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt toward the other, he considers it the single most important sign that the marriage is in trouble.

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments," Seán MacStiofáin, the provisional IRA's first chief of staff, said once, looking back on those early years.

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments

And Leites and Wolf were wrong. "It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments

We would all be sitting in our deck chairs in the backyard, and we would look up, and all of a sudden, the Air House—or maybe even some specific part of the Air House—would be gone. Poof. High-altitude precision bombing. Curtis LeMay won the battle. Haywood Hansell won the war.

Gottman is far more selective. He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. We misread them. We misinterpret them. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear

The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. We misread them. We misinterpret them. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

in the snake pit. (Officially, it was called the counting room.) Lawyers for each side met with inspectors of elections

You know, in order to make somebody laugh, you have to be interesting, and in order to be interesting, you have to do things that are mean. Comedy comes out of anger, and interesting comes out of angry; otherwise there is no conflict. But he was able to be mean and you forgave him, and you have to be able to forgive somebody, because at the end of the day, you still have to be with him, even after he's dumped the girl or made some choices that you don't agree with.

If the two countries went to war and Canada chose to fight unconventionally, history would suggest that you ought to put your money on Canada.