Confrontation Quotes - Page 3

• It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Believe, Generations

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• Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

  Bill Parcells

  Wells, Ifs

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• I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Air, Nfl

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• I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Choices, Design

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• 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 away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

  David Levithan

  People, Going Away, Resentment

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.77, Egmont UK

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• Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

  Mike Rowe

  Eric, Made, Brown

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• Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

  Steven Seagal

  Common Sense, Important, Should

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• Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Giving, Attention, Action

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.117, Stanford University Press

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• Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

  Allison Joseph

  Ideas, Persons, Elegy

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Self, Issues, Moral

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  War, Path, Easier

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• It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Character, Stage

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Men, Obscurity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.54, Vintage

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• I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

  Thom Mayne

  Conflict

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• Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rising, Elements, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Compromise, Crisis

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.

  C.E. Morgan

  Art, Clever, Book

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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

  Mardy Grothe

  Caring, People, Sometimes

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• In my own personal experience in my life, people that I argue with or have confrontations with are the people I love and care about the most. I wouldn't think to argue with somebody I couldn't give two s**ts about. There's no point in arguing if you don't care.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Good news is not news. Bad news sells. Confrontation sells. And that's what the press is always looking for. I'm not bragging, but I have the highest job-approval rating of any public official in the city. And I've had it consistently. The approval rating for the police department is 70 percent. This notion that stop-and-frisk has torn the community apart is false.

  Raymond Kelly

  Community, Police, Bragging

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Creativity, Past

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience.

  Griselda Gambaro

  People, Effort, Theatre

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• A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

  John C. Wright

  Men, Challenges, Empty Places

  John C. Wright (2012). “The Hermetic Millennia”, p.116, Macmillan

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• We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Criticism, Needs, Limits

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• I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

  Julie Delpy

  Temper, Snaps

  "indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “2 Days in Paris” Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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