Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

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.

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

I think everybody has a point where they're not going to cross that line. There were a couple of things with Comedy Central that we had to fight for. They were pretty cool about everything. I don't think there was anything we really fought for that didn't happen.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

I'm tired of fighting...

Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.

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.

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.

Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they stand by their position. They are ready to listen to different views, to hear all the voices in society.

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

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

I can stand out the war with any man.

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