Quotes About Conflict

It's war," he replied. "The trick is to know which risks to take.

We're not big on that sort of thing. We wait for our leader to point to an enemy and say, 'Go whack him.

Now if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war,' he said.

Die familie heeft weinig geluk met gooiende vrouwen,' stelde Gilan droog vast. Lydia keek hem niet-begrijpend aan. 'Tja, Cassandra schakelde zijn broer met haar slinger uit, en nou heb jij hem met een pijl doorboord.

You can't beat a right hook in a situation like this,' Thorn replied.

Nor did Baggio endear himself to the Juventus faithful by his loyalty to Fiorentina. In the Fiorentina-Juve match in April 1991, Juve won a penalty. Baggio refused to take it, and it was missed. He was then substituted, and on his way to the bench picked up and put on a Fiorentina scarf. Weeks of argument followed.

There is no need to stand for what is right. People are entitled to their own opinion and they are right in their own way. By choosing to be kind, you avoid the conflict of explaining why you are right. You are only feeding your ego for justifying the reasons why you are right. Choosing to be kind means accepting the reasons why people do what they do. By living your life in this manner, you drive away hostility and

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Mortals cannot win war with what is eternal.

You didn't throw rocks at me! Yeah, but I thought about it.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom.

In every age and clime we seeTwo of a trade can never agree.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...

War without fire', said Henry V, 'is like sausages without mustard.

People make trouble, trouble makes history

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.