Conflict Quotes

We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel... covenants.

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

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton: this weekend, 33rd wedding anniversary. How about that? And you thought the Iraqi war was a never-ending conflict.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

The difference is conflict, an important yet overlooked aspect of all good communications.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?

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

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

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

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

The president can't have a conflict of interest.

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.

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

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

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.