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Quotes About Conflict

Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?
~ Sinclair Lewis
Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
~ Sinclair Lewis
he delighted in failing to tell cook that the peas were now ripe, and he was given to shooting cats, stray dogs, chipmunks, and honey-voiced blackbirds. At least twice a day, Doremus resolved to fire him, but—— Perhaps he was telling himself the truth when he insisted that it was amusing to try to civilize this prize bull.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism
~ Sinclair Lewis
Have men and women always got to hurt each other this way?' cried Ralph. 'Yes. Anybody that ain't content with being a peddler is going to hurt himself and everybody else, I guess,' said Joe.
~ Sinclair Lewis
It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors struggled.
~ Sinclair Lewis
It was Sheila who six months ago had demanded the Hispano-Suiza, but this summer she was in a socialist stage. Sam was a little annoyed because all through dinner she kept asking why the workers should not take from Sam and her father all their wealth.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Every fairy-tale needs a good old-fashioned villain?
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Better is peace than ever war.
~ Sir Thomas Mallory
And therefor, sir,' seyde the Bysshop, 'leve thys opynyon, other ellis I shall curse you with booke, belle and candyll.' 'Do thou thy warste,' seyde Mordred, 'and I defyghe the!
~ Sir Thomas Malory
CREONTE Quale piaga è peggiore di un cattivo parente?»
~ Sofocle
Those are the three keys: the want and the opposition to the want need to be important, necessary, and urgent. The result should be the kind of conflict that interests readers.
~ Sol Stein
When we get involved with other people, the chances of a clash are present even with people we love because we do not have the same scripts in our heads.
~ Sol Stein
To live an intuitive life, it helps to clear away everything that prevents you from tuning in to higher vibrations—that is, everything that takes up space or energy but doesn't contribute to your life. This includes unwanted possessions, unfinished business, excess commitments, negative thinking, judgments, mental projections, resentments from the past, and conflicts in the present.
~ Sonia Choquette
It is also nearly impossible to get caught in someone's dramatic reaction if you both breathe together. This is called sharing a breath. It's a way to steer clear of a conflict and tune in when someone is agitated and truly tuned out. The way to do this is to start breathing in sync with that person, then slow your breathing to a deeper, calmer pace. The upset person will automatically follow your breathing and calm down too.
~ Sonia Choquette
Mothers) They lose their children's love. Reunited, they end up in conflict homes. Too often, the boys seek out gangs to try to find the love they thought they would find with their mothers. Too often, the girls get pregnant and form their own families. In many ways, these separations are devastating Latino families. People are losing what they value the most.
~ Sonia Nazario
Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.
~ Sophie Jordan
Except that stopping midsentence is the worst thing people can do. It's like, totally passive-aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which then they deny.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I now know exactly why they started the tradition of being apart the night before your wedding. It's nothing about romance, or sex, or being chaste, or whatever. It's so you don't have a row and stomp up the aisle seething at your bridegroom, planning all the home truths you're going to tell him as soon as you get this wedding bit out of the way.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Every time I mention her, Magnus says, Are you two getting along? in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You love the bitch from hell? Well then, you must be nuts.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?
~ Sophie Kinsella