Top 100 Quotes About Confrontation
#1. I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
Reverend Malcolm Boyd
#3. Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.
Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
#4. Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
Timothy Keller
#5. The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile. The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#6. Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.
Arthur Scargill
#8. Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it is not in the venting of opinion, but in the confrontation of opinion.
Walter Lippmann
#9. There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
Sean Connery
#11. Remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response
Lysa TerKeurst
#12. They would beg for elegant attention; yet fled any kind of confrontation.
Ophelia Callens
#13. I've always played nice guys, so I'd love to be someone that creates a bit of confrontation. I know that sounds bad, but as an actor, I want to explore different things.
Dean Geyer
#14. I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
Angel Olsen
#17. My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
Trisha Yearwood
#18. Perhaps the new way of evangelizing is not so much through confrontation and argument, but through conversation, dialogue, and affirmation
Charles M. Murphy
#19. The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.
Sergei Lavrov
#20. Danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of
direct confrontation, you are immortal.
William S. Burroughs
#21. I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.
Jennifer Echols
#22. A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
John C. Wright
#23. The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.
John C. Maxwell
#24. Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained? ... The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.
Sergey Akhromeyev
#25. Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.
Shereen El Feki
#26. The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
Irving Kristol
#27. Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
Don Hewitt
#28. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#30. Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
Bashar Al-Assad
#31. That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.
Paulo Coelho
#32. A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes feelings of humility and regret.
John Lamberton Harper
#33. We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.
Minette Walters
#34. Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.
Chris Pine
#35. Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.
Barbara Delinsky
#36. I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.
Rose Byrne
#37. They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
Carl Sagan
#38. The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.
Keith Haring
#39. Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation
John Helm
#40. But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God. There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.25
M. Scott Peck
#41. Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
Lloyd Cutler
#42. Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.
Dale Partridge
#43. We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.
Matt Shea
#44. Isolate any resistance by avoiding any direct confrontation.
Steven Redhead
#45. Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.
Masha Gessen
#46. War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
Alva Myrdal
#47. Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
Andrew Young
#48. Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Francis Schaeffer
#49. I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.
Sharon Van Etten
#50. I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#51. Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
Francis Schaeffer
#53. The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Edward Said
#54. By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
Terence McKenna
#55. It's always at the hour of trouble and confrontation that the missing member aches.
James Baldwin
#56. Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
Bill Veeck
#57. Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Larry Harvey
#58. At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional present.
J.G. Ballard
#59. If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.
Scott Kim
#60. The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.
Asger Jorn
#61. All confrontation is based on deception.
Paul Watson
#62. 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#63. He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
Bill Scott
#64. Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.
Sharon Critchfield
#65. We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.
Terence McKenna
#66. 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
#67. Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.
Megan McKenna
#68. Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as with words.
William Sloane Coffin
#70. Confrontation while lounging in bed.
J.D. Robb
#71. Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
Stefan Molyneux
#72. We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.
Charles Kennedy
#73. 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
#74. Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
Alain Juppe
#75. Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
Bill Parcells
#76. The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.
Silvio Berlusconi
#77. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.
Junius Williams
#78. Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
Elizabeth Peters
#79. I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer ... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.
Michael Palin
#80. 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
#81. A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.
Martin Schoeller
#82. Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Antonio Damasio
#83. I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.
David Levithan
#84. For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
Ivan Krastev
#85. We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.
Leonid Brezhnev
#86. If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Peter Brook
#88. Wonder , or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#89. Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly
Gregory S. Prince Jr.
#90. This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me ... and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.
T.F. Hodge
#91. We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.
Richard M. Nixon
#92. The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
Rand Paul
#94. When ethnicity is all you think about, there's bound to be confrontation ... But if we see each other as individuals, then it's possible to treat each other as equals.
Hiromu Arakawa
#95. Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.
K.P. Yohannan
#97. One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
Justin Cronin
#99. The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#100. The victories of the imagination involved no risks, and a confrontation with an enemy always ended satisfactorily when both sides of the conversation came from one's own daydreams.
David Eddings
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