“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the quacking duck gets shot.” — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer. — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision. But as a young kid,… — Brad Tavares Copy Share Image
The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I think people are uncomfortable seeing pregnant women, particularly with any kind of conflict. [Pregnancy is] very much a projection of life… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“... mother seemed happy because the school yard where Rafik would spend his recesses was surrounded by a high stone wall. She'd… — Naomi Shibab Nye Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image