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“For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.”

Source: About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times

“Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.”

Humans Ends Suffering Girl Levels Conflict Linked Extremist Unprecedented Human Suffering

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.”

Giving Suffering Love Is Conflict Tragedy Blind Resolution One Love Love Is Blind

Book:Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

“If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.”

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.”

Humans War Answers Conflict Hunger Conviction Cannibalism

Author:Bruce Kent

“If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.”

Ifs Mind Heart Action Pain Causes Meditation Impossible Conflict Focused Engaged

Book:Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

“The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.”

Persons Successful Skills Conflict Outcomes Unusual Successful Person

Author:Sun Tzu

“I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.”

People Way Feels Hurt Party Conflict It Hurts Contention

Author:Jack Kirby

“When we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else?”

Ifs Mind Kind Ends Would Be Community Our Lives Imagine Planets Conflict Beloved Our Family Life Changing Our Community

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify.”

Knows War Able Goal Deals Conflict Tension Regions Resolve Verify

Author:Barack Obama

“The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the inner dialogue. It's very hard to project that onto a screen because Bond doesn't talk a lot about how he feels. But, when you have an actor like Daniel Craig, he's able to convey the inner turmoil and the conflicts. He's given Bond his humanity.”

Feels Book Hard Able Humanity Actors Given Conflict Projects Screens Dialogue Turmoil

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.”

People Thinking Hard Guy Roles Conflict Casts Hyper

Author:Andre Braugher

“Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.”

Conflict Capacity Motherhood

Author:Romola Garai

“Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.”

Thinking Helping Conflict Layers

Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.”

Thinking Kind Mean War Security Conflict Anxiety Shots Hatred Greed Wrestling Nonviolence Civility Mediation

Author:Cornel West

“Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.”

Sometimes Levels Results Produce Conflict Track Confusion

Author:Ciaran Hinds

“The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.”

Want Decision Position Drama Conflict Position Of Power Good Drama

Author:Stephen Moyer

“Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?”

Want Mind Kind States Waiting Quality Our Lives Produce Conflict State Of Mind Habitual Waiter Inner Conflict

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.”

Firsts War Conflict Western Iraq Iraq War

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.”

Ifs Firsts Wanted Steps Middle Conflict Obvious East Settling Middle East First Steps Palestinian Israeli Settling Down Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Author:Molly Ivins

“Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.”

Dream Desire Force Imagination Creativity Conflict Driving Impulse Fuel Resolve Our Dreams Daydreaming Driving Force Unfulfilled Desires

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.”

Firsts Evolution Lessons Conflict Kinship

Author:Holmes Rolston III

“Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.”

Needs Long War Lasts Worry Middle Conflict Long Time Bases Historical Iraq East Sand Vietnam Middle East Warfare Jungle Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Kuwait Middle East Conflict

Author:Dan Quayle

“It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there.”

Men Littles Guy Gone Nice Fans Hero Battle Conflict Approach Fairs Agree Edges Vulnerability X Men Nice Guy Uncompromising Anti Hero

Author:Hugh Jackman

“When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.”

World Conflict Other Worlds Trance

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.”

Believe Stories Media Conflict Presses Conservative Driven Favors Ideology Wow Bias Rating Boost Circulation

Author:Ken Auletta

“Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day.”

Trying Mother Common Type Easier Conflict Labor Unions Endless Common Sense Productive Bloody Interfere Mothers Day Zionist Hamas Labor Union Guillotine

Author:Roseanne Barr

“There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.”

People Conflict Stress Thrive

Author:Clark Gregg

“I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.”

World Long Ideas Self Kids Wanted Acting Conflict Decided Pursue Going Out Better Place Self Centered Diplomats

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in their approach and, a lot of times, that can lead to potential conflict, and then a debate in figuring out who and what is the right way to do it.”

Way Different Cases Conflict Approach Agree Debate Right Way Jane

Author:Sasha Alexander

“Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.”

Thinking Wells Kind Ends Character Shows Grows Interesting Conflict Classic Love Each Other Trajectory

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I do love, but I find it's in conflict with the other roles because the producer needs to be the one who says "No" and the director and the writer need to let their mind be free.”

Needs Feels Mind Mean Stuff Roles Directors Conflict Producers Detest

Author:Julie Davis

“There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and they can still come up with great work. But (what) I enjoy and it's the same, I suppose, as I became more of a family man, I enjoy, I enjoy an atmosphere where it, you know, doesn't have to be about conflict to get good results.”

People Knows Men Said Stills Reason Causes Process Enjoy Results Conflict Come Up Atmosphere Rhyme Great Work Family Man

Author:Andy Serkis

“It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.”

World War Facts Energy Interest Dangerous Conflict Happenings Dollars Fuel Regimes Fossils Fossil Fuel Geopolitical Aggravated

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.”

Law Mother Conflict Daughter In-laws Mother In Law Daughter In Law

Author:Wanda Sykes

“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

Facts Political Space Events Objects Conflict Gains Starting Radio Interpretation Warfare Representation Strategic Presentation Radar Completing

Author:Paul Virilio

“If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.”

Ifs Belief Conflict

Author:Brad Stine

“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.”

“Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.”

Ifs Would Be Plans Advice Conflict Acceptable

Author:Arthur Balfour

“'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'”

Firsts Made Remember Sides Dark Conflict First Time Albums Tea Uncertainty Dark Side

Author:Dave Grohl

“If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.”

Ifs Want Looks Conflict

Author:Alan Cohen

“We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.”

Victory Battle Conflict Draws Greatest Victory

Author:Rod Parsley

“The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.”

Ifs Humans Done Eye Christian Life Is Dies Influence Divine Victory Conflict Accounts Finals Deeds Income Human Life Welfare His Eyes Contribution Midst Behalf Overflow Deeds Done

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

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Author:William James

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.”

World Giving Stories Jobs Romance Emotion Hero Conflict Edges Sanity Happy Endings My Hero Heroines Best Job Making Up Heroes And Heroines

Author:Ruth Glick

“[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.”

Writing Ideas Voice Interest Pay Accepting Progress Industry Conflict Models Research Absolutes Fuel Our Relationship Minimum Fossils Fossil Fuel Conflict Of Interest Research And Writing

Author:Alex Epstein

“If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures. In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the Seed and the Seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms!”

Ifs World Years War Earth Remember Moving Three Next Land This World Becoming Conflict Thirds Seeds Treasure Kingdoms Triumph Finding Yourself Three Years Preparing Rise Against

Author:Chuck Pierce

“My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.”

Thinking Kind Two Character Film Next Differences Fiction Study Pieces Special Effects Conflict Science Fiction Priorities Budgets Special Effects Indie Films

Author:Duncan Jones

“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.”

Helping Problem Social Deals Novel Groups Reader Fit Offers Conflict Analysis Protagonists Social Problems

Author:Jane Smiley

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