Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument. — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out. They're fucking with the wrong people.” — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation. — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
“This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking… — Peggy Haymes Copy Share Image
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there… — Stanley Coren Copy Share Image
Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support… — dream hampton Copy Share Image
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
