Confrontation Quotes · Page 3

“Confrontation is what I dread the most in life.”

— Felicia Day

I hate consensus. I like confrontation.

— Geert Wilders

The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

— Federico Mayor Zaragoza

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

— Missi Pyle

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

— Alain Juppe

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

— Lauryn Hill

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

— Bashar al-Assad

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

— Louise Bourgeois

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

— Edward Said

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

— Corey Flintoff

“I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right…

— Doug Cooper

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

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

— Noam Chomsky

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the…

— Haile Selassie

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

— Stefan Sagmeister

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

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

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those…

— Peter Ustinov

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.'…

— Johnny Vegas

“Only he whose bright lyre has sounded in shadows may, looking onward, restore his infinite praise. Only he who has eaten poppies…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted…

— Peter Leithart

When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might…

— Sandra Cisneros

Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music…

— Jason Whitlock

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of…

— Bill Scott

A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed…

— Wallace Stegner

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

Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has…

— Kenny Smith

Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a…

— Karyn Kusama

Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are.…

— Desmond Tutu

Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is…

— Gwynne Dyer

The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that…

— Jacob Bronowski

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store…

— Bob Costas

Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is…

— Sidney Greenberg

Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

— Noam Chomsky

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

— Kim Young-sam

“The initial confrontation of the root is the most critical part of this journey.”

— Bruce Lengeman

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

— Bill Kaulitz

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

— Jennifer Saunders

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

— Richard Rohr