Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

Peace is obtained by war.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

Organizations in conflict quickly become like one another.

If you don't simply communicate with your spouse what household tasks you would like them to do, you are setting yourself up to be angry.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

Why can't we all just get along?

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

We can't always agree on everything.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is produced by war.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.