He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he’d first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he’d presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he’d not known since...

How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’t die...

Good men are remembered for their friends. Great men are remembered for their enemies. The greatest men are those who turn their enemies into friends.

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me,And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hencethe need for continual conflict and resolution. We can’t have any boring books.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND REMIND EVERYONEOF THE SUFFERING…OF THE ENSLAVED…YAZIDI WOMEN

You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.

If a family has not been accustomed to separation of parents, then negotiating … and adding another family can add a little bit of conflict.

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.

The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military...

For you, it’s all about money, money, money. But what about the forests I say? Some of those trees have been there for hundreds of years. What right have you to destroy that?

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been...

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

Between conflict and cooperation, I’m in favor of cooperation. But I would also say that conflict at times can be creative.

I firmly believe that these two issues … constitute the ultimate solution to the conflict. We are more than willing to resolve this issue once and for all.

Today everything’s a conflict of interest,

It is not what happens to you that matters; it is how you feel about it that does.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE… AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE… THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE

There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members.

Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone’s life to do the hard work for you.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by...

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.

It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without...

If we produce separate agendas, we risk conflict and a fragmented approach. But if we work together, our chances of achieving success multiply.

They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds are kept separate for the safety of everyone.” “And yet, I connect them.” “You do.

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp …Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it’s insulting when outsiders...

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import – what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature...

America isn’t breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn’t dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn’t triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren’t at each other’s throats. They’re living more interdependently...

In terms of the Taiwan Straits [sic], obviously a conflict in the Taiwan Straits [sic], everybody loses. China loses, Taiwan loses, we lose, the area loses.

That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It’s always about the past or the future. People can’t agree on the details of what has happened or is going...

Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’ and I can just say, ‘Car won’t make it.’ I don’t have to...

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin’ people up and stealing cars, and now they’re gettin’ their life back together… I just love the stories. The stories of the...

I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood...

REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people can make a mistake knowing that even when they do, it is only...

One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just for the fun of flying, just to be sustained by the air-currents. Then...

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

We all know it’s safer to beat up on people who won’t retaliate,’ he told her, ‘but it’s a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it...

THE ABUSER’S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES THE CONFLICT, AND IT DETERMINES THE SHAPE THE CONFLICT TAKES.

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native...