Conflict Quotes
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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
Allen Tate -
Attitudes turning into motives, meeting resistance, creating conflict, and leading to consequences—becoming plot.
Ansen Dibell
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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
William Landay -
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
Vito Fossella -
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing -
I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.
Bill Oberst Jr. -
The key to the conquest strategy is to coerce the West into accepting a Muslim right to resist assimilation, to regard sharia as superseding Western law and custom when the two conflict.
Andrew C. McCarthy -
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Steven Spielberg
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The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.
Andrei Zhdanov -
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
Angelina Jolie -
I believe there's a huge conflict of interest when local prosecutors investigate cases of police violence within their own communities.
Franchesca Ramsey -
Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
Lao Tzu -
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Paul Claudel -
It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.
Josh McDowell
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God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.
Kay Arthur -
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
Ger Duany -
We're in a state of conflict with the Government. Either we are going to jail or we're going to win.
Barrett Brown -
What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.
Kathleen Clark -
When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.
Steven Soderbergh -
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
Rene Girard
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill -
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict between environmental quality and economic growth, I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
Jimmy Carter -
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.
Bill Clinton