There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.
Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart. . . . Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been.
There is no working middle course in wartime.
Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.
A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.
Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict. . . . ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.