Quotes About Conflict

We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

It's easy to think of a role-playing game as an amalgamation of two main components, narrative and gameplay, jammed together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, they fit together nicely; other times, they're as awkward and frustrating as that one weirdly-shaped 'Tetris' block that always falls into the gap where you need an L.

Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.

It's harder to compete against queens you know, because you have that personal relationship with them already.

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.