Combative Quotes

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

Gary Rohrmayer

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Jessie Burton

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

Amy Dickinson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. 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

#12. 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

#13. "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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Ian Jackson

#18. 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

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

Sol Stein

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

Gretchen Rubin

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Kate Atkinson

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

George Santayana

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

Arthur Keith

#26. 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

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

Leah Remini

#28. No damsel was ever in more distress, no dray horse more flogged, no defenseless child more drunkenly abused than the English language today. And

Robert Hartwell Fiske

#29. Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

Pete Sessions

#30. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

#31. Sometimes the west showed clouds like tiny pink feathers; sometimes it showed purple mountains and green lakes; sometimes the clouds were scarlet with gold around the edges. Betsy

Maud Hart Lovelace

#32. The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

James Frey

#33. You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Aeschylus

#34. Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

Laurie Anderson

#35. I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

Halsey

#36. Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

Vladimir Nabokov

#37. He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.

Jim Benton

#38. And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

Christy Romano

#39. only if the past is understood can the future be navigated

Ross Terrill

#40. I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Charles Kennedy

#41. "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

#42. By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Samuel Richardson