Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I actually think that the Russians are exploring the idea: Is it worth ending this conflict in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, creating peace, getting out, and what would that look like? I don't think they're committed to it yet; I don't think they've made a decision one way or the other - but I think they're exploring it.

I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to snap. Music and politics, it seems, are increasingly considered to be separate domains. Music is about making peace, not conflict, they say. And, therefore, it is best to do what is considered normal and uncontroversial. Increasingly, accepting the status quo is a precondition for being considered entertainment, while protest culture is grouped alongside politics.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.

I call myself "The Love King" in all aspects. Poetically speaking, in the bedroom, I love, and in social conflict.

I am quite confident that there are numerous discussions going in various "deep states" throughout the world about how to contain Trump's America geopolitically and economically, given the early indications that his policies will intensify conflict in many parts of the world.

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.

I care about Ukraine's success as a country; I'd like to see the conflict resolved. I'd like to see us getting back to the idea we - you know, over many, many administrations, starting with George H.W. Bush and onward, we talked about a Europe whole, free and at peace. That we're looking to promote democratic societies, prosperous, market-driven societies and security for everybody, indivisible, including Russia. And we have never gotten there.

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.