Best 107 quotes in «confrontation quotes» category

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

When he comes for her, it’s only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That’s when she listens.

When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )

When two people are on the path of confrontation… a smallest spark is enough to convert into a devastating inferno.

When two people are on the path of confrontation…an innocuous comment is taken as an accusation. And an innocent query is suspected as an accusation.

When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.

When we confront with reality, we not only loose peace of mind , but creative power and vision to respond our life.

When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look. ~ Subhangi Tyagi

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity and invite them to do so as well. Take things a step at a time. Give them consequences when they refuse to deal with serious issues, and pray. Pray like the dickens. Pray every step of the way.

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

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

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

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

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

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

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

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Some among the European elite have sought out confrontation with us. As a consequence, we won't help Europe, although we could do so when it comes to the refugee question. A joint closure of borders would be essential. In this regard, the Russians would be 10 times more effective than the Europeans.

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

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.

The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.

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

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

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing.

As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere—leading to the Birth of a ‘Pacific’ New World Order—that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war.

As a matter of fact, confrontation could be a seed of peace.

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is thrust out of the sheltered nest that society has provided. He can no longer hide his nakedness by the old disguises. he learns how much of what he has taken for granted was by its own nature neither eternal nor necessary but thoroughly temporal and contingent. He learns that the solitude of the self is an irreducible dimension of human life no matter how completely that self had seemed to be contained in its social milieu. In the end, he sees each man as solitary and unsheltered before his own death. Admittedly, these are painful truths, but the most basic things are always learned with pain, since our inertia and complacent love of comfort prevent us from learning them until they are forced upon us. It appears that man is willing to learn about himself only after some disaster; after war, economic crisis, and political upheaval have taught him how flimsy is that human world in which he thought himself so securely grounded. What he learns has always been there, lying concealed beneath the surface of even the best-functioning societies; it is no less true for having come out of a period of chaos and disaster. But so long as man does not have to face up to such a truth, he will not do so.

Capponi and his Colleagues being one Day in the King's Presence, while one of the royal Secretaries was reading over the immoderate Articles which were proposed as the ultimate Propositions on the King's Part, he fell in a Passion, and violently snatching the Paper out of the Secretary's Hand, tore it to Pieces before the King's Face; adding in a high Tone of Voice, 'Since you demand such dishonourable Conditions, sound your Trumpets, and we will sound our Bellls;' By which he intended as much a if he had said in plain Words, 'Let the Differences be decided by Arms.' With this Speech, and with the same Air of Indignation, followed by his Colleagues, he abruptly left the room.

A voice in my head told me I acted like a spoiled brat, but I duct taped that sucker shut. I didn’t make it far, though. The seductive cedar smell enveloped me as Lux hoisted me off the ground, threw me over his shoulder and carried me back to the group.

Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing those issues that caused conflict in the first place. Peacemaking can never be separated from doing justice. They go hand in hand. Peacemaking means having to stir the waters on the way to peace. Peacemaking means speaking the truth in love, but speaking the truth nonetheless.

[B]y not standing firm and by not exercising tough love, we often cause the figurative “death” of others and sometimes ourselves, our goals, our destiny.

Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.

Confrontation is better than insinuation.

Confrontation is better than speculations.