Relational Conflict Quotes

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family - with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

I'm related to people I don't relate to.