“These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.” WorldRealRememberForceDifficultDarkResultsConflictFinalsMortalsReal WorldBad DayDifficult Days Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“'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.'” FirstsMadeRememberSidesDarkConflictFirst TimeAlbumsTeaUncertaintyDark Side Author:Dave Grohl
“This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.” PeopleWorldLittlesSaidI CanVoiceDarkRoomsConflictStonesObviousDialogueProseOngoingSkipDark RoomCompression Author:Janet Fitch
“The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.” FeelsTryingWarLightSpiritDarkFocusPossibilityGreatnessConflictSkinsSeekingUncertaintyHatedInternalsRaysRollingAvoidedRestlessnessUnendingInternal Conflict Author:Brendon Burchard
“And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.” IfsMenDeathFightingDarkWhiteSkyBattleBandConflictWeaponsGloryShadowCommitmentTasksHorseSacredFighterTallLightningGrimTailoredCavalryStepsons Book:The Sacred Band Source: The Sacred Band