Best 107 quotes in «confrontation quotes» category

One must consider that small children are virtually incapable of making much impact on their world. No matter what path taken as a child, survivors grow up believing they should have done something differently. Perhaps there is no greater form of survivor guilt than “I didn't try to stop it." Or “I should have told." The legacy of a helpless, vulnerable, out-of-control, and humiliated child creates an adult who is generally tentative, insecure, and quite angry. The anger is not often expressed, however, as it is not safe to be angry with violent people. Confrontation and conflict are difficult for many survivors.

One of the advantages of confrontation is, you confront people to find out, if your assumptions are right or wrong.

Only he whose bright lyre has sounded in shadows may, looking onward, restore his infinite praise. Only he who has eaten poppies with the dead will not lose ever again the gentlest chord. Though the image upon the pool often grows dim: Know and be still. Inside the Double World all voices become eternally mild.

Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him.

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

People with different aims could always be pitted against one another.

Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

The advantage of playing dumb is that it postpones the moment confrontation, when you acknowledge you're I opposite sides, when someone fires the first shot. If you're already at a disadvantage -- like for instance, Of your car's in neutral when you thought it was in reverse -- it gives you a chance to reach for a weapon.

Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.

Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.

Then he smiled again. In spite of herself, Francesca couldn’t help noticing he looked much more attractive when he smiled like this. “You,” he said, “are quite a woman.” “It’s the Italian side of me,” she replied, as if he had just paid her a great compliment. “Indeed. I have rarely—” He paused with a sharp glance at her. “—never seen such blatantly managing behavior.” Francesca tipped up her chin, smiling warmly at him. She knew the fight was lost but didn’t want to leave with her tail between her legs. “Then shall I see you tomorrow, to begin our search?” “I think not.” Still smiling, he bowed his head. “Good day, Lady Gordon.

The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. "I came to find you." "I didn't know. If I'd known..." "It doesn't matter now." The girl's attention was unwavering. "This is where you are.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. "I came to find you." "I didn't know. If I'd known..." "It doesn't matter now." The girl's attention was unwavering. "This is where you are." "It is at that." The girl looked sad. Her soil-dark eyes were clouded over by tears she hadn't been able to shed. "I came here to find you." "I couldn't have known." Maylene reached out and plucked a leaf from the girl's hair. "Doesn't matter." She lifted a dirty hand, fingernails flashing chipped red polish, but she didn't seem to know what to do with her outstretched fingers. Little girl fears warred with teenage bravado. Bravado won. "I'm here now." "All right, then." Maylene walked down the path toward one of the gates. She pulled the key from her handbag, twisted it in the lock, and pushed open the gate.

This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.

There comes a point in some conversations where I simply quit and let reality do my talking for me.

There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for months now with every last person he loved.

There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

There were things he'd been scared to face his whole life, and now that he was looking them in the eye they weren't quite as scary as he first thought.

Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.

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 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 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 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" )

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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).

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