Quotes About Conflict

Why are you still wearing...? Aya began. Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly? David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

I know what it's like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it's like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We've spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don't try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

Alek said, Do you think I'm being a fool? I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city. There are no limits in war, Volger said, still staring out the window.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness? Alek glared at the man. We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic.

This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city's millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him. Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.

I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you." He put his hands on her shoulders. "It was the only thing in my mind, when it came time to choose – that I couldn't lose you. That's when I knew.

If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she feel this way inside?

My friend!" I exclaimed, "man is but man; and, whatever be the extent of his reasoning powers, they are of little avail when passion rages within, and he feels himself confined by the narrow limits of nature. It were better, then — but we will talk of this some other time," I said, and caught up my hat. Alas! my heart was full; and we parted without conviction on either side. How rarely in this world do men understand each other! August

I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain.

Amigo mío: ¿necesitaré decírtelo, a ti que has sufrido más de una vez viéndome pasar de la tristeza a la alegría más alborotadora, y de una dulce melancolía a la pasión más violenta? Trato a este pobre corazón como a un niño enfermo, le concedo cuanto me pide. No se lo cuentes a nadie, que no faltaría quien dijese que con ello cometo un crimen

In the end, by all the Devils, yes! Partisan hatred's still the best,

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;

Faust: Nun gut wer bist du denn? Mephistopheles: Ein Theil von jener Kraft, Die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

Ruhumu, ortas?ndan ikiye ay?ran bir duvar var.

Nichts Bessers weiß ich mir an Sonn- und Feiertagen Als ein Gespräch von Krieg und Kriegsgeschrei, Wenn hinten, weit, in der Türkei, Die Völker auf einander schlagen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

la guerra, el comercio y la piratería son una trinidad inseparable.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.

Even the prudent and the good have before now hesitated to explain their mutual differences, and have dwelt in silence upon their imaginary grievances, until circumstances have become so entangled, that in that critical juncture, when a calm explanation would have saved all parties, an understanding was impossible.