Internal Conflict Quotes

• I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

  Jan Egeland

  Thinking, Challenges, Hopeless

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

  Brendon Burchard

  War, Dark, Greatness

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• Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension....Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives. When we covenant to follow the Lord and obey His commandments, we accept His standards in every thought, action, and deed.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Integrity, Live Life, Expression

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• Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Live Life, Conflict, Tension

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• Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

  James McAvoy

  Character, Thinking, Conflict

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• I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Conflict, Settling, Bloodshed

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• We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Earth, Conflict

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• the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

  Howard Raiffa

  Conflict, Problem, Linkages

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

  George Blagden

  Character, Play, Conflict

  "Comic-Con: George Blagden and Gustaf Skarsgard Talk VIKINGS, Favorite Moments from Season 1, and Tease Season 2". Interview with Connie Allen, collider.com. July 21, 2013.

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• Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Two, Long

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• My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

  Ira Sachs

  Self, Discovery, Levels

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Guy, Watches, Needs

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

  D. H. Lawrence

  War, Believe, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

  Amy Waldman

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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