330 quotes found
“We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.”
“If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.”
“The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.”
“Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.”
“Life is an art of managing conflicts—conflicts 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 ab...”
“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?”
“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 tha...”
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”
“There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.”
“It was like a war inside me; I couldn’t even recognize all the sides. There was one that said, ‘No, this is wrong; you know it’s wrong and bad and sinful,’ and there was another that said, ‘Nothing...”
“People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary”
“I don’t think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it’s not a little uncomfortable, then it’s not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway”
“The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong.”
“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”
“it’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantra, “Force is the only thing these natives understand,” so often that they ended up believing it ....”
“I shouldn’t even exist. Neither should they. What’s the difference between destroying me and destroying them?” - Lexia Graham”
“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 of those who bear the...”
“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 ...”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
“Mika: Sometimes I just feel like you don’t want to be like this with me.Letti: Like what with you? You have no idea how much I want to be with you Mika.Mika: So, why don’t I feel it?Letti: :( What ...”
