Quotes About Avoiding Confrontation

#1. Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.

Stefan Sagmeister

#2. In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Mariella Frostrup

#3. Jane walked into the playground feeling a strange sense of calm. Perhaps she needed to learn from Madeline's example. No more avoiding confrontation. March up to your critics and bloody well tell them what you think.

Liane Moriarty

#4. Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

Omar Zuniga

#6. Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pindar

#7. It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.

Natasha Tsakos

#8. Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

Steven Seagal

#9. Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

Criss Jami

#10. Isolate any resistance by avoiding any direct confrontation.

Steven Redhead

#11. She was like steel. It was in her eyes, and in her voice, and in the fine, shining look of her. From the sparkling ankles to the expensive-crink of a hat. She looked sexy and untouchable, the way they can look if they want. She looked expensive.

Gil Brewer

#12. It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over - at your age, too.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

Simone Elkeles

#14. We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of ... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

David Suzuki

#15. Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language.

C.S. Lewis

#16. We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Lorraine Toussaint

#17. I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

John Cleese

#18. Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

Michael Caine

#19. Fools are wise until they speak.

Randle Cotgrave