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Quotes About Conflict

I know that if any other comedian came up to me questioning something I did or said, it would be literally settled in a heartbeat. I love comedy. I give to comedy. I don't take from comedy.
~ Carlos Mencia
I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?
~ Albert Wynn
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
~ Samuel Richardson
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.
~ Elliott Abrams
I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
~ Bill Parcells
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
~ Kenny Loggins
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
~ Omar Bongo
Over time, many CEOs realize that being able to quickly and effectively confront conflict in their company is a leadership opportunity because people's respect often rises and falls on whether their leader deals with conflict head on or avoids dealing with it.
~ Mark Goulston
I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.
~ Paul Martin
We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
~ Paul Bremer
There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
~ Dave Matthews
Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.
~ Martin Van Creveld
There was one time when we were getting beat at Highbury, and our assistant manager Pat Rice came in shouting. Arsene, in front of all of us, just went 'Pat! Sit down and be quiet!'
~ David Seaman
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
~ Matt Dillon
We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
~ Kate Brown
When it comes to rugby, I'm a Welshman through and through. I'm a huge fan; I've played rugby since I was seven. Unfortunately, I had to quit when I went to drama school because it doesn't really go hand in had with being an actor.
~ Gwilym Lee
I'm not an expert on the arms race.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
~ Ben Carson
If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.
~ Michael Andretti
I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar.
~ Ayelet Shaked
Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.
~ Philip Morrison
Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.
~ Jordan Peterson
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.
~ Nick Clooney
On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.
~ Michael T. Flynn