Conflict Quotes · Page 51

I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.

— Zachary Levi

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Alexander Waugh

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

— Allison Janney

I feel like creativity seems to rise up wherever there's been sadness or conflict as a coping mechanism.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

DRAMA: You say you hate it, so why do you create it? You say you don't need it, yet you continue to…

— Anonymous

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true,…

— Victoria Moran

When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy…

— Widad Akrawi

The monster is growing all the time. The numbers (of fighters) and the abilities at the Islamic State's disposal are great and…

— Hassan Nasrallah

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are…

— Robert Wyatt

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

— Tom Rath

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not…

— Rebecca Hamilton

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.…

— Wendy Kopp

We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain…

— Mark Ruffalo

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of…

— Cornel West

Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence…

— John Updike

Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us…

— Anonymous

Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don't think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You…

— Megan Fox

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem…

— Spiro T. Agnew

“It appears, according to the reported facts, that the electric conflict is not restricted to the conducting wire, but that it has…

— Hans Christian Ørsted

The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e.…

— Vernon Richards

“Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ...Maybe the…

— Leymah Gbowee

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

— Vladimir Makarov

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which…

— Scilla Elworthy

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Mark Zuckerberg

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

— Peter Shaffer

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

— Mike Tyson

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every…

— Barack Obama

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

— William Wordsworth

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

— Maria Montessori

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

— Prince Charles

My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.

— Lou Holtz

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

— Anonymous

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

— Anonymous