Quotes about Conflict

She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive.

Through centuries of time, men and women, so very, very many, have lived and died. Some may die in the conflict that lies ahead. To us, and we bear solemn testimony of this, death will not be the end. There is life beyond this as surely as there is life here. Through the great plan which became the very essence of the War in Heaven, men shall go on living.

My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.