Conflict Quotes · Page 56

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

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Zachary Levi

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

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,…

— Christopher Dodd

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in…

— John O. Brennan

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't…

— Francesca Lia Block

We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller…

— John Hume

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give…

— Max Lerner

If we have anything in common as humans it's the instinct to survive. When you go in the ring you are going…

— Teddy Atlas

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our…

— Edmund Burke

No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve…

— Maximilian Kolbe

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

— Ayn Rand

Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting…

— Robert Dugoni

Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if…

— Jaron Lanier

The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of…

— Gloria Steinem

We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced…

— B. Alan Wallace

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be…

— Isaac Asimov

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing…

— Aga Khan IV

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

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Shaffer

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

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Mike Tyson

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in…

— Thomas Szasz

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn…

— Oprah Winfrey

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

— Richard Engel

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to…

— Hope Solo

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg