Quotes About Conflict

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

Scarlett did take pleasure in it. She bullied the negroes and harrowed the feelings of her sisters not only because she was too worried and strained and tired to do otherwise but because it helped her to forget her own bitterness that everything her mother had told her about life was wrong.

After all, they were Yankees and no one expected anything better from Yankees. So their unthinking insults to her state, her people and their morals, glanced off and never struck deep enough to cause her more than a well-concealed sneer until an incident occurred which made her sick with rage and showed her, if she needed any showing, how wide was the gap between North and South and how utterly impossible it was to bridge it.

Si hay algo en el mundo que me divierta de veras es el espectáculo de sus luchas mentales cuando una cuestión de principio está en pugna con una cuestión práctica, como es el dinero. Naturalmente, en usted el lado práctico siempre vence, pero yo continúo a su alrededor para ver si el lado mejor de su naturaleza logra triunfar algún día. Y, cuando llegue ese día, haré la maleta y me marcharé

No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.

Rhett: 'Do you still want me to go to hell?' Scarlett: 'Well, not as often as I used to.' Rhett: 'Do it whenever you like, if it makes you happy.' Scarlett: 'It doesn't make me especially happy,' said Scarlett and, bending, she kissed him carelessly. His dark eyes flickered quickly over her face, hunting for something in her eyes which he did not find, and he laughed shortly.

Nina," Luke said finally. "Nina was the other traitor." "Yes," Mr. Talbot said.

Epic poems were always best in French. Let's see. "Le troisième enfant dans les vêtements de ses ennemis

Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.

Evil turns upon itself.

We both loved other things more, and that came near destroying us." "What things?" "Power, for one. Glory, for another. Pride, ambition, the need to control everything around us.

The words of explanation Edward long to say grew tangled in smoky perfume and wet tendrils of long fair hair, conflicting thoughts of assassins and magic, insane monks and false nuns and holy quests and somewhere, long ago, the tale of a wild witch of the wood with whom, if a man fell in love, he was lost forever....

homeland." "Not even Sturm?" he couldn't help asking wryly, nettled by her stinging tone. But he was not prepared for the answer. Alhana twisted to face him, whipping around so fast her long black hair flailed his skin. Her face was so pale with anger, it seemed translucent and he could see the veins pulse beneath her skin.

Shackleton faced many of the same problems encountered by managers today: bringing a diverse group together to work toward a common goal; handling the constant naysayer; bucking up the perpetual worrier; keeping the disgruntled from poisoning the atmosphere; battling boredom and fatigue; bringing order and success to a chaotic environment; working with limited resources.

You tell yourself it would be best for her to die. You tell yourself that if now, at this hour of the night, she died, it would be easier. For you, you probably mean, but you don't finish the sentence.

Je suis devenue folle en pleine raison.

Pero el miedo no me abandonaba. Quería matar, a mi hermano mayor, quería matarle, llegar a vencerle una vez, una sola vez y verle morir.

dans tout combat entre le fanatisme et le sens commun, ce dernier a rarement le dessus.

L'homme est une entreprise qui a contre elle le temps, la nécessité, la fortune, et l'imbécile et toujours croissante primauté du nombre, dit plus posément le philosophe. Les hommes tueront l'homme. (La visite du chanoine)

Les escarmouches avec les théologiens avaient eu leur charme, mais il savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant. (L'acte d'accusation)

il existait sans doute entre les inquiétes créatures humaines des répulsions et des haines surgies du plus profond de leur nature, et qui, le jour où il ne serait plus de mode de s'exterminer pour cause de religion, se donneraient cours autrement. (La promenade sur la dune)

Ne mettrez-vous pas fin à sauvage cri, Ce fauve hurlement des bêtes qu'on abat ? Jusqu'à quand, insensé, meurtrissant et meurtri, Dévoreras-tu ta propre substance ?… … Comme un père hébété égorge son enfant, Et prie, ô l'imbécile !

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.