Quotes About Conflict

Please don't take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.

He sighed deeply, pain in his eyes. "What is it you're running from? Is it me?

Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.

Hell, I've always like the man," he said now. "Until he became involved with my wife.

A half mile down the hillside, he could see Warren's pickup stop in a cloud of dust. Hud watched Dana get out. She was still beautiful. Still prickly as a porcupine. Still strong and determined. Still wishing him dead.

Hud? Back here? Oh, man, what a birthday present," Hilde said, giving her another hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie. I can imagine what seeing him again did to you." "I still want to kill him," Dana whispered. "Not on your birthday." Hilde frowned.

He met her challenging gaze. "You really have no idea what is good for you," he said as he caged her against the side of the pickup with a hand on each side of her. I used to think you would be good for me," she said quietly, her voice rough with emotion.

He'd never been able to say no to her – even when he should have known that a girl like her wanted something better than a cowboy like him.

When are you coming back?" he'd demanded as he'd watched her throw her clothes into two suitcases and head for the door. "When you get some help with your drinking." He didn't need any help. He drank fine without it.

Hope and fear are vectors that push against each other, and the sum of those two vectors is your overall motivation level.

nothing does he hold the medalla oro." "Gracias, Don Andres. I shall remember," said Jack, and walked away to the stables. He felt that the heart of Don Andres Picardo was warring with his intelligence. That although his wide outlook and his tolerance

And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.

Since war has ceased to be the moving force in the world, men have become more tender one to another, and shrink from what they used to inflict without caring; and this is not so much because men are improved (which may or may not be in various cases), but because they have no longer the daily habit of war--have no longer formed their notions upon war, and therefore are guided by thoughts and feelings which soldiers as such--soldiers educated simply by their trade--are too hard to understand.

The English have discovered pacific war. We may not be able to kill people as well as the French, or fit out and feed distant armaments as neatly as they do; but we are unrivalled at a quiet armament here at home which never kills anybody, and never wants to be sent anywhere.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups.

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

Kim Jong-un is not a rational person.