#conflict

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#conflicting #directly #entertain #felt #i

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#everybody #feels #how #i #i think

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#come #conflicts #down #everybody #generations

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#darkness #defined #dramatically #i #like

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. ↗

— Andrew Bernstein

#chosen #conflict #earth #given #hero

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. ↗

— Mike Judge

#conflict #happen #order #plot #something

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#binding #cease #come #conflict #existence

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#act #been #cannot #common #common good

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ↗