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Quotes About Conflict

Take responsibility for our anger. We can say: "I feel angry when you do this because …
~ Melody Beattie
La vedo chiaramente la mia miserabile mansione... ubbidire da ribelle; e peggio ancora, odiare con un'ombra di pietà
~ Melville Herman
The fact is, I can't put together the sort of feelings that I get when I'm having a dirty big wank together with the kind of feelings I get when I'm having a nice friendly chat with someone. It just doesn't work.
~ Melvin Burgess
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I'm so bad with people I can't even win an argument with myself.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Kabul edilebilir tek savaÅŸ, kendini savunmak için yap?land?r ve her türlü savaÅŸta en büyük bedeli ödeyen masumlard?r
~ Mercedes Lackey
Yeah, and if I have to choose between being eaten by the Endarkened and telling my Da I'm a Wildmage, I'm not sure which I'd pick.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I understand that you think your child isn't old enough to know his own mind, but I promise you, he is. He may well be wrong, but he does know his own mind, and he's got a perfect right to think that way. And you need to stop letting him prove he's smarter than you are by rising to the bait he throws out to make you angry!
~ Mercedes Lackey
People who were not already divided into factions would make factions given the chance, and they would always want the most important people to belong to their faction, whether the person in question agreed with that or not.
~ Mercedes Lackey
As the figure moved before him he followed the muscles as they wove beneath the skin. he was not only fighting with an assailant who was awaiting for that split second in which to strike him dead, but he was stabbing at a masterpiece -- at sculpture that leapt and heaved, at a marvel of inky shadow and silver light. A great wave of nausea surged through him and his knife felt putrid in his hand. His body went on fighting
~ Mervyn Peake
the roaring repression that could do no more than bleat through her voice;
~ Mervyn Peake
When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent, but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.
~ bell hooks
Love and abuse cannot co-exist.
~ bell hooks
Unfortunately it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one another rather than engage in constructive confrontation.
~ bell hooks
Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence.
~ bell hooks
The best way to respond to distracting personal attacks is to practice bringing the conversation back to the issue at hand. Never fall into the trap of engaging in personal attacks while letting the topic of conversation slip into the background. Doing so allows your opponent to escape the need to explain her position.
~ Ben Carson
today the expense of modern warfare far outweighs any economic benefits it achieves.
~ Ben Carson
I had a large camping knife in my hand and without thinking, I lunged at him, plunging the knife into his abdomen.
~ Ben Carson
if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.
~ Ben Carson
If it's in our constitution, if it's in our pledge, if it's in our courts, and it's on our money, yet we can't talk about it, what condition are we in as a country? In medicine we call it schizophrenia. And doesn't that describe a lot of what is going on in our society today?
~ Ben Carson
Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas.
~ Ben Elton
God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.
~ Ben Fountain