Quotes About Conflict

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

I earned my place, With the tidal waves.I can't escape this feeling, That something ain't right.I called my nameAs I crashed the gates, Still I can't escape this feelingThat something ain't right.

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

In time of war the laws are silent.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.