Amos Oz Quotes

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

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.

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

There is some tension but at the end of the day you have to reconcile.

I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.

People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.

I always tell people you can't make peace half way: to make peace with somebody, you have to make peace and bury the hatchet, or you just keep fighting forever.

There's always room to mend broken hearts, I suppose.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Accusations are useless.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.