Confrontation Quotes - Page 5

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

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Argument, Painful

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.

  Liz Kessler

  School, Rocks, Circles

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• Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Looks, Firsts, Should

  Sophie Kinsella (2007). “Shopaholic & Baby”, Random House LLC

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• 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 inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

  Francine Prose

  Children, Inspire, Handwriting

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Union Books

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• 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 see no reason to promote more confrontations.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Way, Life Is

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.251, Bantam

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• 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 is preserved.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Two, Different

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• 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 know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Dirty, Mean

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.38, Harmony

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• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Lying

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• Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Demand, Nevertheless, Carrie

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  Barbara Deming

  Determination, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

  William Styron

  Thinking, Evil, Fiction

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• They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Views, Rigidity

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 184, 1980.

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• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Understanding, Different

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• Receptivity and sensitiveness are what makes one's behaviour endearing and enriching. Do not try to thrust your likes and dislikes on others. Try instead, to find out what those around would expect from you and where you can possibly contribute. Rather than feeling conflict or confrontation every time, look for and generate greater notes of harmony.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Likes And Dislikes, Feelings, Trying

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• According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

  John Oliver

  Gun, Law, Florida

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

  Louise Bourgeois

  Sometimes, Bourgeois

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• The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Europe, America, Rift

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.73, Verso

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• I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Islamic, Issues, Voters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Moving, Past

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

  Billy Bragg

  Political, Height, Made

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• At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Moving, Taken

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• If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

  Henry Rollins

  Opponents, Want, Treats

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• Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

  Denis Healey

  Military, Technology, Competition

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• In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Race, Doors

  "Song: 'Rat Race'". 1976.

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• In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Opposites, Romance, Zoom

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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