#conflict

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty. ↗

— Juan Cole

#east #interest #interested #middle #middle east

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attraction #awkward #clash #conflicting #embarrassment

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#confidence #conflict #divides #external #far

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. ↗

— Brian Eno

#coming #conflict #countries #czech #czech republic

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#conflict #country #gulf #gulf war #korean

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #relationships #beauty

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #beings #case #conflict #define

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ↗

— Simone Weil

#conflict #international #likely #more #petroleum

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#conflict #dull #else #every #everybody

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#bridge #bridges #conflict #contributing #creating