Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not... he has not any conflict with the whole. He has fallen in harmony, he is in a harmonia.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.

Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Choosing to leave the lesbian life brings us into direct conflict with the satanic realm.

Conflict isn't negative, it just is.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.