Confrontation Quotes

212 quotes by 196 authors

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's… — Michael K. Simpson
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations… — Peter Ustinov
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. — Trisha Yearwood
What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an… — Jeff Lindsay
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so… — Kurt Vonnegut
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which… — Frantz Fanon
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be… — Albert Camus
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think… — Clive Barker
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal. — William S. Burroughs
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll… — Frederick Buechner
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not… — Barbara Mertz
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide… — Richard Linklater
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. — Simone Elkeles
But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through… — Liz Kessler
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. — Christopher Hitchens
Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be. — Sophie Kinsella

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