Quotes About Conflict

Obama wants to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the same thing we want.

Bill Clinton somehow managed to be revered and adored by both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Obama has managed to be looked at suspiciously by both.

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

If I could make Panther tough, mysterious, wily, and often at odds with his 'Avengers' comrades, that was a character I'd find interesting.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

Fighting in the name of god is the biggest paradox ever.

The security of Israel always has to be paramount.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

No, I wouldn't let Trump on my stage... I'd just rather fight him in the car park.

I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.