Quotes About Conflict

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.

It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

I'd been in my share of fights but never thrown the first punch, and I'm not quick to anger.

It's this weird binary where I'm getting media images and narratives thrown at me all the time through something I hold in my hand, and that's never happened to other generations. But also with this little object in my hand, I have the ability to document police brutality, or post about the Syrian conflict on Twitter.

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

India should not have any ties with Pakistan, be it Bollywood or cricket. I am shocked that Bollywood is saying that cricket and movies should be kept ahead of national sentiments.

If you rile a tiger, he's going to show his claws.