Conflict Quotes - Page 23

The concern we should have is not that North Korea would suddenly launch a preemptive strike on Guam or any other target, but that the conflict escalates to the point that there is a miscalculation on one side or another and missiles or bombs are dropped.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

On Syria, it's clear that the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by the [Bashar] Assad regime and Russia will only worsen the humanitarian catastrophe and that a negotiated end to the conflict is the only way to achieve lasting peace in Syria.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

Day-to-day scheduling is always a conflict. You go, "Oh, I want to go to that awards show because when am I ever going to do that again?" But then you go, "Yeah...except this other thing is more important." It's more the micro day-to-day stuff that becomes a daily task as opposed to worrying too much about the career.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

It's a conflict of parallels.

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.