Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

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 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.

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 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 of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

I spent so much time at Escuela Caribe denying my true emotions and avoiding conflict that I became unsure of what my feelings really were. This is something that affects me to this day. I feel extremely uncomfortable during arguments, to the point of shutting down and not saying anything, like a turtle retracting into its shell. I can't stand conflict.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

It's a conflict of parallels.

It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.