Confrontation Quotes

212 quotes by 196 authors

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can… — Francine Prose
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I… — Dean Koontz
That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love… — Paulo Coelho
I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go… — David Levithan
I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't… — Greg Behrendt
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thatâ€™s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us… — Terence McKenna
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. — Francis Schaeffer
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this… — Albert Camus
Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative. — Sherry Argov
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with… — Peter Rollins
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual… — Jimmy Carter
Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve… — Dalai Lama
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden… — Lewis Thomas
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
It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention… — R C Sproul
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation. — Ivan Krastev
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there… — Vladimir Bukovsky
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting. — Charles B. Rangel
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin. — C. J. Mahaney

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