330 quotes found
“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have been misled by the counterfeit comforts of modern life into be...”
“If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.”
“That was what finally decided me. I wanted to be near him, to touch him, but what I really wanted more than that was answers, for the conflict within me to end. I needed control.”
“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”
“The mentality of who is your unclean ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudans internal conflicts.”
“Peace ain't worth fighting for.”
“Lust shouts. Love whispers. Only the heart knows the difference.”
“Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.”
“Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.”
“Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.”
“Conflict is the essence of the self.”
“Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we dont get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly.”
“Life is an art of managing conflictsconflicts between our expectations and perceptions. It is like a tightrope walk. We load our expectations from life on one end of the bar and our perceptions abo...”
“If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.”
“Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.”
“For you, its 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?”
“Do you know how many acres of beautiful forests and moors have been destroyed by your company? How many animals have lost their homes and how many trees have been murdered? I am sick of being bothe...”
“Reconciliation is a step beyond the domain of conflict resolution, which, as traditionally defined and practiced, is coming to be viewed as inadequate for creating true healing, harmony, and effect...”
“So never give in, continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that...”
“Creating conflicts and killing each other to be in accord with our only Creator should be the definition of insanity.By promoting divisions and hostility among men, all monotheisms have proven that...”
