Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. – Brent Scowcroft
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. – Anna Quindlen
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it’s egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all. – Concha Buika
An artist’s early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. – Bridget Riley
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests. – Abdullah II of Jordan
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict – but I don’t see the world as defined by them. – Andrea Arnold
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict. – Amy Chua
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 – confusion even. And I think that’s hard to capture in journalism. – Amy Waldman
I don’t start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental. – Ashwin Sanghi
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one’s own personality. – Carlisle Floyd
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples – the Israeli people and the Palestinian people – are ahead of their leaderships. – Amos Oz
It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility. – Cesare Beccaria
There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you’re say you’re broke, it’s not the same thing. – Arto Lindsay
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do. – Alicia Keys
If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don’t know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict. – Andrea Roth
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict – that’s where drama is. – Amanda Plummer
The roles I’m interested in or have been interested in, you know, it’s going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict – conflict of interests. – Ben Foster
If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people’s right to a homeland and the existence of an independent Jewish state in the homeland of the Jewish people. – Ariel Sharon
News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. – Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There’s a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don’t have the disease feel safer. – Andrea Barrett
Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it – that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that’s terrifying for me. – Alanis Morissette
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. – Aly Khan
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven’t got a clue what lies ahead, they’re always searching into the past for some sort of pattern … to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian. – Antony Beevor
The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards – and resistance against – modernization. – Aman Mojadidi