In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what. — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain. — Frederick Douglass 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
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
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
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset,… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
It's this weird binary where I'm getting media images and narratives thrown at me all the time through something I hold in… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution,… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Thus ended the Iran-Iraq War, one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the 20th century. After eight… — Efraim Karsh Copy Share Image
Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent… — Donald Rumsfeld 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
According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars? — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be. — Ian McLeod Copy Share Image
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
