Quotes About Conflict

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

Film for long enough and you are bound to see good friends have a tiff!

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

The division needs a guy like me. It's a bunch of good guys, and I'm the only bad guy in the division. There always has to be a bad guy in every movie.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

Having lawyers involved never leads to good things.

It's both difficult and hard at the same time to deal with them, and there's hardly any reason for it.

For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love. . . . Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.

Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.

I remember like yesterday how he strayed in out of nowhere to our log cabin on Birdsong Creek. He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks.

The more angry and miserable things get at home, the more people want to smack hell out of someone. It doesn't matter who. The American attitude toward the world is, "Not only can I lick anybody in this bar, but I can lick all of you at once.

The hair beneath was baby blond, the face under the grime so young; too young... yet old enough to die in war.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factionalism, and that if factions grind their separate axes too vociferously, something mutual, precious, and human is in danger of being drowned out and lost.

To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

The northern people have been long connected with slavery; they have been linked to a decaying corpse; which has destroyed the moral health. The union of the government; the union of the north and the south, in the political parties; the union in the religious organizations of the land, have all served to deaden the moral sense of the northern people, and to impregnate them with sentiments and ideas forever in conflict with what as a nation we call genius of American institutions.