Quotes About Conflict

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. I dare say I would've cut his throat had not the unmentionables distracted me from doing so.

my enemy's enemy is my friend.

He had decided long before that he was going to loathe her. It was inconvenient therefore that she was kind.

We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ...

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven't the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven't the slightest idea what it is.

Look at what you've done" he said after a sickened silence. "You've killed us" "On the contrary... I've killed him." "More will come." Abe had already begun to walk away. "Then I shall need more stakes.

Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq, said, "The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat."

Cathair Mor was succeeded by Conn who overthrew him in a great battle in Meath.

A warlike people must have war.

But the interesting cases are those where the conflict remains obstinately in place however much we ponder the problem. These are the cases where we are tempted to conclude that "intuition cannot be trusted." In these situations we need to improve our intuition, to debug it, but the pressure on us is to abandon intuition and rely on equations instead.

And with that he sensed that this girl he loved and yet knew he had to push away had finally pushed back.

We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that...it's a lion.

Who am I? One fed up with his self, at war with sanity.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

Yes, maybe I would write a book someday. I had always possessed a certain facility with words; when I was very young, my brother teased me so badly that one day I threw a knife at him. —No, said my mother.—Use your words. I did. I told him how selfish he was, how he was tearing our family apart with his stubborn belligerence, how he was becoming everything he hated in our father and worse. —Okay, said my mother,—don't use your words.

Hiding from genocide inside a Jew's attic, thought Kugel, is like hiding from a lion inside a gazelle.

What's the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as the War of the Grandmothers; that after 50 years of peace, it was the grandmothers who reminded their offspring to hate each other, the grandmothers who reminded them of past atrocities, of indignities long gone. Never forget! shouted the grandmothers. So their grandchildren remembered, and their grandchildren died.

He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

Maya repeated the achingly slow process with the remote control in reverse, and in the profound quiet that ensued, looked at Leyla. 'Why are you doing this to me?' Yasmin turned on her mother. 'She's not doing anything, she is gay. It's not a choice. So I think, actually, that you should be telling us why you have such a problem with it.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.