Quotes about "War & Peace"

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some. ”

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict. ”

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. ”

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ”

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. ”

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics. ”

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it. ”

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means. ”

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. ”

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ”