Confrontation is what I dread the most in life.

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

— William Hazlitt

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was…

— Henry James

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if…

— Roy Blount, Jr

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

— Martin Rees

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

— Toni Morrison

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

— Judith Martin

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

— Jennifer Saunders

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and…

— Jimmy Carter

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…

— Andrew Young

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of…

— Matt Taibbi

“Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out. They're fucking with the wrong people.”

— Robert Kirkman

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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…

— Chuck Palahniuk