Charles Dickens Quotes

Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our time, and frankly, I don't think I have enough money to tip the waitress for that kind of clean-up. And look, here's lunch. Let's eat that instead of eachother.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

You can just fight one man at a time.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

I'm not really a confrontational person.

I've learned It 's better to address conflicts head on and then move on.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.

I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

I'm tired of fighting...

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn’t die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn’t ever going to get my water. Ever.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.