Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't… — Lloyd Cutler Copy Share Image
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs.… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
