Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes

War is what happens when language fails.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

As long as we are still talking, that's progress.

Diplomacy takes time.

As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

You can't make people respond.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.