Quotes About Conflict

Reflecting on the Four Tendencies often makes it clear why we're not getting along with someone else. We often madden one another with our Tendencies.

These couples ease into arguments instead of blowing up immediately—and avoid bombs such as "You never . . ." and "You always . . .

Novelist Jean Rhys observed, "One is born either to go with or to go against.

how a couple fights matters more than how much they fight.

the marriage expert John Gottman calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" for their destructive role in relationships: stonewalling, defensiveness, criticism, and contempt. Well

Research suggests that when we have conflicting goals, we don't manage ourselves well. We become anxious and paralyzed, and we often end up doing nothing.

You see, poor land leads to poor people, conflict, disease. To heal the planet, you have to heal the whole.

He wondered if he'd be better off staying at the bum shelter with his false bum and forgetting about his real bum. But he couldn't. His bum was trying to take over the world.

Sometimes I wanna kill, sometimes I wanna die, sometimes I wanna destroy, sometimes I wanna cry; sometimes I could get even, sometimes I could give up, sometimes I could give, sometimes I never give a f*ck.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

I feel torn to pieces by a rage of love.

Els burgesos admiraven els seu sentit de l'estalvi, els clients els seus modals, els pobres la seva caritat. I, tanmateix, era un antre de cobejances, d'odis i de ràbia.

Maar zij werd verteerd door verlangen, door woede en wrok.

There was no fire in the fireplace, the clock was still ticking, and Emma felt vaguely amazed that all those things should be so calm when there was such turmoil inside her.

elle vient dans mon cabinet m'entretenir de ses chagrins domestiques. Je ne peux la mettre à la porte, mais j'en ai fort envie. Je me suis réservé dans la vie un très petit cercle, mais une fois qu'on entre dedans je deviens furieux, rouge.   J'avais

Ich habe immer versucht, in einem Elfenbeinturm zu leben; aber ein Meer aus Scheiße schlägt an seine Mauern, genug, ihn zum Einsturz zu bringen.

siempre hay algún deseo que arrastra, pero alguna conveniencia social que retiene.

Yine de ruhumda ne çok ÅŸey var, ne içsel güçler ve ne öfke ve aÅŸk okyanuslar?, bu kadar zay?f, bu kadar aptal, bu kadar b?kk?n, bu kadar bitkin ÅŸu kalpte birbirine çarp?p, paramparça oluyor!

Život koji sam potiskivao u sebe stisnuo se u srce i stezao ga da ga zadavi.

Válka vypukne, když si dvÄ› zemÄ› pÃ…â"¢isvojují nárok na stejné území, když nebyly pÃ…â"¢esne ur?eny hranice mezi dvÄ›ma nezávislými státy nebo když v nich ?asem doÅ¡lo k nejakým nesrovnalostem. Tam, kde jsou hranice pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› vymezeny a respektovány, k nejasnostem ani ke konflikt?m nedohádzí.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. [ My Uncle Sosthenes ]

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. [ On Water ]