Quotes About Conflict

For as much as Hillary Clinton might hate admitting this about Monica Lewinisky, Eleanor Roosevelt about Missy Le Hand, Queen Alexandra about Lillie Langtry, Lady Nelson about Emma Hamilton, or Jackie about Marilyn, the reality is that despite their intrinsic animosity toward each other, on a a deep level, the wife and the mistress generally have far more in common than they might care to admit and could, had fate dealt them different cards, even been true friends.

We were incompatible in a lot of ways. Like for example, I was a night person, and he didn't like me.

My father plowed under our fields to make the landing space for his helicopter. Jenna's father thinks my father is lazy since he only flies three times a week and is back by dinnertime. My father thinks Jenna's father should mind his own business.

There's a fight going on inside of everyone between a good wolf and a bad wolf, but the one you feed is the one who wins

Cat and Dog were ganging up on Ferret last night.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. —Mark Twain

Blood is what moves people. Blood is the force of the revolution.

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we're famous for killing.

Just because you're fighting evil doesn't mean you're good. And just because you're doing evil doesn't mean you're bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It's all shades of gray.

Many people aren't happy with the refugees coming to their country. Maybe we came illegally, but every other door was shut in our faces. What do they expect us to do? Isn't it enough our government destroyed us and we lost everything? We would prefer to stay in our country. If you don't want refugees, help us make peace in Syria.

I can't sleep without the sounds of bombs or bullets. It's like something's missing.

That next day, the regime launched chemical weapons. They hit very close to our house. My uncle and cousin were killed. It was like poison that burned their bodies from the inside.

I lived through rockets that would explode children into a million pieces. Sometimes we'd clean up body parts with our own hands. There wouldn't be a whole body to pick up. Just a hand or a leg or a head.

The second patient had been shot in the frontal lobe. He was there with his son, who was maybe eleven years old. The boy would leave at night, knock on doors asking for help, and then go back to his dad. On the third day, the army entered the hospital and killed them both. We saw them take the corpses away.

That August was the chemical weapons attack.

Sometimes I joke to Munir that someone should gather all of us Syrians in one place and kill us so we can be done with this whole thing already. Then we'll all go to heaven and leave Bashar al-Assad to rule over an empty country.

Everything in Jordan bothered me. My family, the government, the bad way the Jordanians treated us.

We were thirty-five people in one house. The women would sleep in one room and the men in another. When there was shelling, we'd be about three hundred people in the underground shelter.

So we left and came to Lebanon and my husband and daughter stayed in Syria.

The more people tried to address the issue of sectarianism, the more violent the regime became.

Everyone takes advantage of Syrians. If you go to the hospital, they register your visit even when they don't provide treatment, just so they can charge the fees to the UN.

If you don't want refugees, help us make peace in Syria.

After Hamza, people realized that the regime is on one side and the people are on another. That's it. The only thing our leaders know how to do is kill, kill, kill, kill, and kill.

You know, many Alawites hated the Assad regime, and I think the regime knew that. They also know that the Alawite community is their lifeline, their base for survival.