Confrontation Quotes

• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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 over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Differences

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Worry, Doe

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• There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Progress, Argument

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.151, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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 desire to avoid confrontation with China.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Country, Political, Desire

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• 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 led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

  Peter Ustinov

  Frustration, Back Alleys, Social

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moving, Eras, Conflict

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• I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

  Lauryn Hill

  Direct

  "Lauryn Hill: Brainwashed?" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2002.

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• Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

  Don Hewitt

  Dirty, Naughty, Long

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• The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

  John Scott

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Ethics

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• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, Ch. 4, 1997.

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• There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

  Sean Connery

  Alaska, Wire, Want

  YouTube Channel "Marmar"/"Sean Connery interview with Barbara Walters (FULL)", www.youtube.com. August 12, 2015.

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• This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Land, Effort, Way

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• Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

  Jalal Talabani

  Military, Alternatives, Currents

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

  Angela Carter

  Sleep, Bed, Tables

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Purpose, Accepting

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Evil, Circumstances

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Food, Destiny, Thinking

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• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  Ice Cube

  Funny, Dark, Records

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• 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

  Healthy, Affection, Tense

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  Abdallah II

  Running, Military, Pieces

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• Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Political, Movement

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• Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation.

  Klaus Kinkel

  Mean, Political, Terror

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