Quotes About Conflict

Doing the right thing feels like shit.

It didn't take too much longer for Randy to decide that he couldn't take it anymore—no matter how much he loved Nikki, he couldn't ignore that his marriage, which had started on tenuous grounds, was now falling apart.

Although he knew their relationship had been toxic, he couldn't stop loving her.

Since Shelly Knotek came into his life, Ron's world was now a black hole of money trouble, legal trouble, and family trouble. And Shelly was right there, stirring the pot, making things worse and worse.

the woman he alternately loved and tolerated.

Shelly wanted her husband home to face the music for which she was the conductor. He had no place of refuge.

I wish we could shrink her," Sami suggested. "Make her supersmall and put her in a cage." Nikki liked the idea but saw a pitfall. "She'd get out and bite our ankles!

She loved her sisters more than anything, though she also wondered why her mother saw her so differently, treated her with such hatred.

I look at the bottle. I feel so diminished just then that I don't even have the confidence to reach over and pour myself another, let alone smack my sister over the head with it.

When somebody pushes, pushes, and pushes you into a corner, pretty soon you're not going to want to be in that corner anymore.

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

A Union soldier recalled the Confederate dead along Cemetery Ridge: No words can depict the ghastly picture…the men lay in heaps, the wounded wriggling and groaning under the weight of the dead among whom they were entangled….I could not long endure the gory, ghastly spectacle. I found my head reeling, the tears flowing and my stomach sick at the sight. For months the specter haunted my dreams…

With Christianity, it seems, there is always the double-edged sword.

Finally, one would question the absurd idea that anyone would be proud to belong to a race that could create a hellish nightmare like "Gettysburg.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think

In your country the munitions makers ride in their limousines and prepare their wars, while the workers cannot afford new shoes.

Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers.

Moral high ground is a wonderful place to site your artillery. —NAPOLÉON

All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods

Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition

Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women.