Unavoidable Conflict Quotes

We've got a rattlesnake by the tail, and the sooner we pound its damn head in the better.

The world knows how reluctantly I accepted this issue of battle forced upon me on my advent to this place [the White House] by the internal enemies of our country.

Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

A sibling is a friend for life, but they are a friend for life that you are forced to have. And like anything that you are forced to do, occasionally people will drive you crazy.

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape, Yet can't accept. One side will have to go. Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring Intricate rented world begins to rouse. The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.