#conflict

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#about #accidents #both #brought #conflict

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#conflict #desire #fall #falling #fear

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#conflict #dangerous #foe #religion #science

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world. ↗

— Otto Schily

#certain #conflicts #extremists #feeds #feel

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#conflict #different #different kinds #kinds #me

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. ↗

— John Major

#conflict #field #superb #terms #troops

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? ↗

— John Major

#conflict #established #happens #parliament #scottish

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#conflicts #diminished #i #iraq #iraq war

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#development #first #first law #law #overall

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred. ↗

— Warren Mitchell

#comes #conflict #hatred