Quotes About Conflict

He gripped me tighter around the waist and pulled me to him. "No," he said into my ear. "No, Lucy. That's not the way it's going to be.

There's nothing like imminent disaster for putting an end to bickering

that's what being a supervisor is: it's a life of sending others out to fight and die. I've known that for a while, but it took you to make me realize I couldn't bear to continue with it. I couldn't stay at Fittes Agency. I'd rather do something else.

Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

War! that mad game the world so loves to play.

Hobbes clearly proves that every creatureLives in a state of war by nature.

We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

May my enemies live here [London] in summer!

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get.

You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.

There's no way to know what's pissing him off right now. In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.

The last time I saw Wade, I attacked him with an office chair. The time before that, I jammed a lit cheesecake up his ass and almost burned his balls off. So it's understandable that his first reaction upon seeing me is to flinch and assume a defensive posture.

None of us makes eye contact. We have pretty much had it with each other. We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. - Judd Foxman

And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to prevent the mourners from tearing each other limb from limb.

Maybe yelling back is a kind of marital diplomacy

What do you mean by that, Paul?" We are ending our sentences with names, which is the equivalent of fighters circling, looking to throw the first punch.

We have always been a family of fighters and spectators. Intervening with reason and consideration demonstrates a dangerous cultural ignorance.

And nothing can be resolved until each of you has come to appreciate the other's position