Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having rights in a way that individuals do. Communities certainly have interests, but they don't exactly have rights.

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. [Referring to the trouble he had with the peer reviewers of Anglo-American astrophysical journals because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard"” theories.]

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

I'm not sure about whether Ukraine will ever be joining. As long as there's a frozen conflict on Ukrainian territory, they can't possibly join. And that's probably one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is interested in having a frozen conflict there, so that there is no border security.

I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in another place and it is a shock to come out and consider my previous works.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.