Conflict Quotes · Page 39

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can…

— Ashwin Sanghi

It hurts when people do not share in the same idea with you, but the most important thing is your believe in…

— Terry Mark

“--and in fact, we humans need conflict just like we need language, to help us define who we are.”

— Mark Stephen Meadows

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and…

— Andrew Sullivan

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.”

— Toba Beta

Telling a tale cannot be like living it, no matter what you say, talking of love cannot be like giving it away……

— Santanu Mishra

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racism, or politics ever can, as it is the only form…

— Sam Harris

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a…

— David D. Burns

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.…

— Janet Fitch

"The Invisible Woman" was about trying to show this conflict in [Nelly Ternan] woman truthfully, between her own identity, but also being…

— Felicity Jones

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow…

— Jack Zipes

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations,…

— Nick Petrie

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional…

— Elliot Cowan

Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart…

— Lauren Faust

“Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it…

— Ashly Lorenzana

The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression…

— Anna Lindh

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,…

— Anne Rice

Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued;…

— G. Campbell Morgan

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out,…

— Bill Bradley

I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction…

— Marquis de Sade

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man…

— Samir Nasri

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

— Desmond Tutu

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build…

— Nicholas Klein

“We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents…

— Joan Lingard

“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the…

— Criss Jami

“Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Conflict is entertaining and it's the stuff of drama - or comedy - but too much conflict, or conflict that's at too…

— Graham Linehan

I was a huge Wu-Tang fan, along with Crucial Conflict, along with Do or Die along with Mobb Deep.

— Lil Rel Howery

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

— Richard John Neuhaus

The minute you let someone make you angry, mad or bitter is the minute you have given them control over your emotions.

— Sonya Parker

I enjoy conflict. It's what I like to do, physical conflict. I like confrontations. I'm not going to create something though. That's…

— Dan Hooker

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

— Desmond Tutu

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

— William Safire

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

— Cornel Wilde

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

— Swami Vivekananda