Jon Lovett Quotes

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Leaders glare at each other across the chasm of misunderstanding.

I am now fully persuaded that these unfriendly feelings are fast approaching to a degree of animosity that must end in open rupture with injurious consequence to the … cause.

Conflicts are never health for anybody.

... community is already in process of disillusion where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy.

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Cher and I didn't get along that well.

Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

I am not anyone's enemy.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.