Confrontation Quotes · Page 5

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

For those of us on the path; running. We are only running away from ourselves having to face the truth.

— Geraldine Vermaak

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

— Francis Schaeffer

“If someone in my life could grow with confrontation and feedback, why would I choose to refrain?”

— Paula Heller Garland

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

— Angela Carter

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

— Bill Kaulitz

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

— Richard Rohr

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

— Jennifer Saunders

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

— U Thant

Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East… The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled… This confrontation is willed by God,…

— George W. Bush

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

— Simone Elkeles

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

— Mardy Grothe

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find…

— Michael Palin

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will…

— Asger Jorn

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a…

— Jean Baudrillard

We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where…

— Leonid Brezhnev

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead;…

— Jürgen Moltmann

In my own personal experience in my life, people that I argue with or have confrontations with are the people I love…

— Luke Pasqualino

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the…

— Carl Jung

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not…

— Stefan Molyneux

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a…

— Eben Moglen

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood…

— Dalai Lama

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

“Each of us must make it our priority and personal responsibility to stay in harmony with our fellowman. Harmony is not just…

— Deborah Smith Pegues

Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a…

— Spiro T. Agnew

There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we…

— Peter Rollins

“You see, humans shrunk themselves when talking. Traditionally, one must succumb to the correspondence of politeness and must be careful not to…

— Karl Kristian Flores

“Then he smiled again. In spite of herself, Francesca couldn’t help noticing he looked much more attractive when he smiled like this.…

— Caroline Linden

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

— Bruce Lengeman

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

— Corey Flintoff

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

— Kim Young-sam

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Bashar al-Assad

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

— Edward Said

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

— Louise Bourgeois

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif