Best Combative Quotes

#1. Children are not more resilient, they are more forgiving.

Rebecca Nolen

#2. I am a combative, inquisitive, argumentative person, and I will never allow anyone to change that.

Leah Remini

#3. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

Les Brown

#4. For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.

Louise Erdrich

#5. I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.

John Irving

#6. "Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

Janet Morris

#7. I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

John Zorn

#8. Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

Jeff Greene

#9. I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is - he - as you can imagine, I mean, he's a very engaging man. He's - he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we're in front of a microphone that's really tough and combative.

Rick Santorum

#10. In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.

Mike Wallace

#11. The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Bill Hader

#12. Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

Stephen Colbert

#13. Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.

Jennifer Beals

#14. Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes.

Hal Duncan

#15. People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.

Amy Dickinson

#16. Perhaps this is fashionable conversation - combative and unsettling, passing for casual talk.

Jessie Burton

#17. I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

Peace Pilgrim

#18. Even Clark French's novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low point; the novels predictably ended in a crescendo of benevolence.

John Irving

#19. t know why I can't stop being so combative. "Come on. People don't get butchered in this city every day. And the very night after I free the most powerful murderous ghost in the western hemisphere, somebody shows up missing

Kendare Blake

#20. I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

Craig Finn

#21. Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.

Kim Harrison

#22. I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Gretchen Rubin

#24. But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.

William Shakespeare

#25. Eat it," I ordered, holding it with two hands now, making it dance in the air. "It's begging you. 'Eat me'."
He arched a brow.
"Perv," I muttered.
Aiden pressed his lips together, but when he glanced at me and my dancing bun, he burst into laughter. "All right, give me the bun.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#26. Music is the eternal language of love for every living species.

Debasish Mridha

#27. What does it mean to be ,' he thought, 'except to be known?

David Malouf

#28. I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#29. I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

Ian Jackson

#30. Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

Gary Rohrmayer

#31. I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

Jay Parini

#32. It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

Stephen King

#33. Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

Sol Stein

#34. "That is a breathtaking display, luv. But dare not mistake my veneration for surrender."
He starts toward me, his expression fading to a scowl.

A.G. Howard

#35. While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

Elizabeth Mckenzie

#36. I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

Jim Webb

#37. My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

Ai Weiwei

#38. He never imagined, when his daughter was small and infinitely, eternally lovable, that he would ever develop a combative relationship with her.

Kate Atkinson

#39. The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers.

Eric Schneiderman

#40. The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

George Santayana

#41. You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.

Toni Sorenson

#42. Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

#43. For the things I have done I know the devil saves a place for me in hell. So when I am to burn, what does one more sin matter?

Tom Hinshelwood