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

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Hopeless, Internal Conflict, Somalia

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Inspirational, War, 4th Of July, American Revolution, Inspirational Military

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

topic: War, Dark, Greatness, Internal Conflict

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

topic: Integrity, Live Life, Expression, Internal Conflict

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Thinking, Conflict, Internal Conflict

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Conflict, Settling, Bloodshed, Internal Conflict

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

topic: Animal, Earth, Conflict, Internal Conflict, Primates

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

- Howard Raiffa

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

topic: Problem, Conflict, Linkages, Internal Conflict, Mediation

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

- George Blagden

source: "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.

topic: Character, Play, Conflict, Internal Conflict, Best Character

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

topic: Real, Two, Long, Woodpeckers, Internal Conflict

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

- Ira Sachs

topic: Self, Discovery, Levels, Internal Conflict

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

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

topic: Guy, Watches, Needs, Internal Conflict

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

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

topic: War, Believe, Men, Internal Conflict

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

topic: Thinking, People, Confusion, Internal Conflict, Ambivalence