486 Conflict Quotes for You to Enjoy

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?' David Walton

Work Me Waiting Conflict People Year Difficult Back Once Recognize Jobs Tables Like Cliched Go Waiter Getting Being After Really Working Show Professional Actor Started

Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly. Deborah Tannen

Love Great Conflict People Society Our More Openly Than Any Conflicts Public Avoid Avoided Express Lives Strengths

It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones. Deborah Tannen

Time Conflict Pressure Think Ways Easy Entirely Absence Writers Catch Attention Headlines New Ideas Attract Understand Audience New Ones Up Often Established Want Leisure Which Them Expressing Why Copy

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. Dee Dee Myers

Justice Fight Women Conflict Champion Research Promote More Both Environment Counterparts Likely Democratic Protect Advocate Nonviolent Male Women Are Families Than Republican Social Social Justice Bills Initiate Resolution

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. Dennis Cardoza

Government Conflict People Ending Strategy Our Administration More Troops Put Over New Real Iraq Iraqi Handing Than Owe Sovereignty Stability Achieving Rhetoric Them Plan Forward

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. Dennis Ross

War You Conflict Communication Hair Too Local Strike High Trigger Triggers Having Potential Through Simply Between Countries Sort Israelis Iranians Afford Any Where Act Nuclear Nuclear War Second

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it. Dermot Mulroney

I don't deal with conflict well, so sometimes things will happen that will make me feel sort of powerless. But instead of being able to actually deal with the problem, I just suck it up - that's the way I was raised. Music, then, becomes my one avenue for letting things go, and when I get the chance, I let it rip. It's like therapy in that way. Devin Townsend

Music Me Conflict Problem Sometimes Will Avenue Way Able Rip Instead Feel Like Powerless Well Make Sort Deal Becomes Go Up Get Just Being Happen Then Therapy Suck Letting Actually Things Raised Chance

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story. Donald Miller

Beautiful Good You Conflict Good Story Story

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people. Doug Stanton

Life Conflict People Writing Opportunities Dramatic About Superheroes Talk Provided Person Substantial Ordinary Ordinary People Really Moments

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies. Edward Norton

Happy Conflict People Sometimes Think Wrestle Making Making Movies Lot Banal Very Essential Movies Produced Productions Thing

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me. Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Me Conflict Problem Believe Been Situations Stranger

Every conflict can be removed. Eliyahu Goldratt

Conflict Every

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. Elizabeth Berg

Good Conflict Think One Of The Things Good Story Makes Story Things

In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war. Elliot Ackerman

War Corruption Conflict World Plenty Characterized Corrupt Inspires Render Wage Overlooked Coverage Been Green America Deceit Deceitful Behaviors Blue Often Afghans Wanted Average Certainly Who Helping Media Media Coverage Why

Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Elliott Abrams

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. Elliott Abrams

Future Conflict Nothing Resolve Interstate Needless Gaza Say Religious Solved About West West Bank Bank Disputes Violence Need

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. Emil Cioran

Conflict Police Calling End Begin Truths Them

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on. Emily Blunt

Conflict Think Way Drawn Complexity Characters Some Duress Going Who

Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally. Emily V. Gordon

Relationship You Man Commitment Conflict Past Ghosts Marriages Haunt He New Ideas Look Make How Normally Expectations Behave Behaving Really Should Aspects Your Many Even

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves. Fatos Nano

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road. Forest Whitaker

War Conflict Down Starts Soldiers Ourselves Take Road Participate Known Alternative Another Continue Years Five Forever Child Going Them Then Show Down The Road Many Ever Violence

I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were. Forest Whitaker

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love. Francesca Lia Block

Conflict Quotes

No more conflict quotes