Top 85 Quotes About Conflicted
#1. A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.
Philip Kitcher
#2. Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
Zac Efron
#3. Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#4. I lean my head into his chest, still feeling conflicted, although the close proximity tips the scale slightly on the side of seeing this beautiful man naked. ~Vi
Vi Keeland
#5. Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.
Seth Klarman
#6. so many emotions cascaded through me.
I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I was confused. I was conflicted. I was enraptured. I was hurt. I was traumatised. I was in heat. I was spellbound.
I was so many things that I didn't know that the hell I was anymore!
"homecoming!
Keegan Kennedy
#7. It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.
Tiffany Madison
#8. I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
Adam Driver
#9. I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.
Robert Pattinson
#10. I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.
Colin Meloy
#11. I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.
Kendrick Lamar
#12. Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented creative individual who, unfortunately, is also a conflicted personality. He himself would say that.
Jonathan Morris
#13. Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
Karen Swallow Prior
#14. So basically you're just a fucking train wreck?" she joked.
"I prefer conflicted," I corrected.
Chasta Schneider
#15. A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
Hugh Prather
#16. Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.
Nikki Sixx
#17. Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait ... artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
Hank Stuever
#18. I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
Sam Hunt
#19. Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
Gillian Flynn
#20. Choosing life is always messy.
But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.
Mathew N. Schmalz
#21. I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.
Charlize Theron
#22. All that was missing was a neon sign that read EVIL AND CONFLICTED ABOUT IT with a flashing arrow pointing at his head.
Ilona Andrews
#23. She had no idea how right - and how wrong - she was. My conflicted feelings about her were maddening. I was in love with her; couldn't imagine a life without her in it
Jamie McGuire
#24. A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.
Irving Layton
#25. All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!
Lydia Kelly
#26. I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.
Tom Hollander
#27. I feel confused about what I'm supposed to be doing as a feminist because I do like fashion, and I do like magazines, too. I buy them on airplanes. I like seeing what hot trends are new this fall. It makes me feel very conflicted a lot of the time.
Megan Amram
#28. I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams
#29. The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.
Brooke Hauser
#30. I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.
Oscar Isaac
#31. I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.
David Rees
#32. I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.
Suzanne Vega
#33. You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
Jay Alan Sekulow
#34. Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.
Kitty Kelley
#35. One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.
Karen Abbott
#36. There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.
Marie Lu
#37. To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.
Brent Sexton
#38. I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
Lucy Hawking
#40. Who are you Jared? The man who wants to fuck me and own me, or the man who held me when I had a nightmare?
Mercy Cortez
#41. When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer - if we take the time to stop and tune in.
Sharon Salzberg
#42. I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
Sherman Alexie
#43. On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure.
Nayomi Munaweera
#44. I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
Maria Bello
#45. While researchers are somewhat conflicted as to why exactly people look for security and comfort when afraid, this basic response is universal: fear leads people to want security and comfort, wherever and however they can find it.
Ryan T. Cragun
#46. Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?
Alex Meraz
#47. What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.
Dahlia Lithwick
#48. My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.
Iyanla Vanzant
#49. Danny worried his bottom lip. "I'm conflicted." "I have a gun," Quinn said, arching an eyebrow at him. Danny put a finger up. "I'm no longer conflicted.
Charlie Cochet
#50. I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.
Juliana Hatfield
#51. Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about.
Marlon James
#52. I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.
Jerry Springer
#53. I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.
James McAvoy
#54. I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.
Charles Saatchi
#55. I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
Ed Stoppard
#56. I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.
Leon M. Lederman
#57. The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
Kara Walker
#58. Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.
Janisse Ray
#59. In this way Byron's take on the human condition becomes closer to the fractured collage of 20th century existentialists: a conflicted human nature posited within a harsh and painful environment where self-less compassion is essential to human progress, but is rewarded with torture and suffering.
George Gordon Byron
#60. What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
Gore Vidal
#61. The naysayers are not only casting doubt on science and nonbelievers; they are also ignoring the billions of non-conflicted believers around the world, dismissing their views as unworthy.
Bill Nye
#62. I'm conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there's this really awesome restaurant I've been wanting to try out.
Jessica Sorensen
#63. Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence.
Robert P. McCulloch
#64. Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.
Geneen Roth
#65. Climbing into bed, I slide my hands behind my head and stare up at the ceiling.
I have no idea who my father is.
I just had anal!
But I have no idea who my father is.
ANAL, MOTHERFUCKER!
Shit, I hate being so conflicted.
Tara Sivec
#66. I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
Carly Pope
#67. She thought about her life and how lost she'd felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she'd been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
Douglas Coupland
#68. His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.
Alissa Nutting
#69. Today, many women of faith are conflicted. We are moving away from the church and formalized Christianity in record numbers because of the gap between patriarchal doctrine and our real lives.
Jennifer Crumpton
#70. You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
Charlize Theron
#71. I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it means to be a parent. About the responsibility we bear to ourselves and to each other.
Sian Heder
#72. You can't pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet-case to death.
Dan Savage
#73. We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.
Brandon Mull
#74. After ten years of conflicting feelings, I'm suddenly not conflicted at all.
Bella Andre
#75. I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
Sara Zarr
#76. Frustration, arousal, fury, hurt. That was the emotional cocktail I drank every time we spent more than five minutes together.
Devi Ansevi
#78. Being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.
Gillian Flynn
#79. Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are under extreme pressure from local police unions and from rank-and-file cops.
Al Sharpton
#80. The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.
Philippa Gregory
#81. When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
Idris Elba
#82. We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
Kristin Hannah
#83. Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.
Christopher Hitchens
#84. For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It's such a funny, grandiose idea
Florence Welch
#85. Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
Tom Arnold
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