Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

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

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 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'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'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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

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 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.

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

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

I never got in a conflict. I didn't want Don Shula to say a word to me at all. My play emphasized that. He couldn't get me for anything or whatever. After that we were ok. I just didn't like the way they used me at the end of the 1963 season going in 1964. I felt that they played games with me.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.