A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other. — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference. — Ronald A. Heifetz Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words. — Sergey Kirov Copy Share Image
When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica,… — Andrew Mack Copy Share Image
I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The world is full of lots of people play acting and hurling stuff about, unconscious of the effects. And there are large… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
For the British working class, the restrictions of conflict actually improved their diet. Under Lord Woolton, the minister for food, a programme… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel. — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image