485 Conflict Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. Drew Gilpin Faust

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Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. Gordon B. Hinckley

Ignorance Conflict Out Suspicion Grows

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. Herb Caen

Conflict Opportunity Mind State Marketplace City Clash Ideas Opinions Traded Truths Taste May Where Eternal Produce

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. Jack Kornfield

Rain Conflict Sky Car Sense Other Trees Birds Late Our Earth Circling Out Arc Ripe Perfect Color Blessings Without Fresh Pass Tangerine Shining Times Taste Shops Bread Afternoon Crashing Warm Flight Beings Among Million Million Times Harm

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. Jeffery Deaver

Conflict Relationships About Suspense Even Novels

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. Jimmy Carter

Service God You Conflict Political Will Duty Other Religious Religious Belief Never Divorce Between Any Public Public Service Belief Violate

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. John Henrik Clarke

Conflict Reality World Strictly Way States Enter Would About Date Prophecy Had Maintain Over Been Up Dominance Scramble December Formal After Harbor European Whole Now United United States Bombing Pearl Pearl Harbor

Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle. Mitch McConnell

Great History Struggle Conflict Nation Down Our Drawing Find Only Forces Readiness After Regrettable Next Each

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death. Nikos Kazantzakis

Death Day Soul Eyes Conflict Men Long Duty Weak Out Responsible Spirit Day And Night Between Until Supreme Contest Becomes Does Itself Very May Ends Endurance Heavy Breaks Flesh Who Keep Among Grows Resist Last Night

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer. Patrick Lencioni

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading! Veronica Roth

You Conflict World Worth Reading Everything Telling Perfect Without Stories Which Succeed Created Creating Utopia Actually

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. Wangari Maathai

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. Wes Anderson

Together Conflict Sometimes Lonely Trapped Think Everybody Would Memorable Some More More Or Less Feels How Norm Story Less Things Pulled

Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred. Winnie Byanyima

Change Conflict Hatred Met Closed Nationalism Borders Lies Perils Inequality Climate Climate Change Being Homes Millions

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. A. B. Yehoshua

Dreams Conflict Stupid Our East More Instead Between Exclusion West Contributing Creating Bridge Bridges Desire

Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war. Ahmed Zewail

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there. Aidan Gillen

Positive Conflict Sides Hidden Finding Someone More Take Because Around Always Going Interesting Flaw Them Play Thing Fatal

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