Quotes About Conflict

Perché si chiamava civile una guerra in cui due fratelli potevano trovarsi uno contro l'altro? Non si sarebbe dovuto chiamarla, anzi, incivile?

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If a theme runs through the history of Florida, it is this: something's great, and someone comes along to mess it up.

Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees

On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Five point four million. And it wasn't nearly over yet.

Saving myself would mean destroying him.

She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.

faith is an internal tug-of-war, not an external fight.

There are so many battles to fight...so many scores to settle.

This is what I will do from now; I will hurt you.

Mr. Granby next time you two have

The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow.

Screwed-up people are ordinary people who cause hurricanes in your emotions.

Too often close relationships are better at causing demolition than building.

With new vision she would see not only the wrong actions on the part of the screwed-up mother who caused chaos in her life, but her own responses and actions that were adding to the problem. With aerial vision she would fly above the fray and see that it takes two people to keep conflict and control alive.

The best advice for fighting with a screwed-up person is simple: don't. You cannot be logical with an illogical person. The only way to win is to never, under any circumstances, get pulled into an argument. If you fight, you lose! Questioning choices questions integrity. Suggesting different ideas implies lack of intelligence. Seeking negotiation disputes power. Wanting compromise conveys weakness.

Unfortunately, in difficult relationships at least one person has her own agenda that precludes compromise. That agenda is expressed in "I can do it myself!" and "I want my way!

You know — or perhaps you do not know — that there are two women whom I have hated all my life long — Lady Byron and Marie Louise.

The Grand Duke, too, whose part I have been taking hitherto (because he did seem to me a good man, more sinned against than sinning) — the Grand Duke I give up from henceforth, seeing that he has done this base thing of taking again his Austrian titles in his proclamations coincidently with the approach of the Austrians.

There is great injustice everywhere and a rankling party-spirit, and to speak the truth and act it appears still more difficult than usual.

Then there was a fight between our oxen-drivers, one of them attempting to stab the other with a knife, and Robert rushing in between till Peni and I were nearly frantic with fright. No harm happened, however, except that Robert had his trousers torn. And we escaped afterwards certain banditti, who stopped a carriage only the day before on the very road we travelled, and robbed it of sixty-two scudi.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.

Bill blinked tears from his eyes, then fastened his gaze on me. "Bitch," he snarled—why they never think of anything cleverer I'll never know.