Quotes about Confrontation

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. Votes: 5

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. Votes: 5

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose. Votes: 5

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life. Votes: 3

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on. Votes: 3

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that. Votes: 3

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love. Votes: 3

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Votes: 3

Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation. Votes: 3

Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story. Votes: 3

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught. Votes: 3

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. Votes: 3

Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad. Votes: 3

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. Votes: 3

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. Votes: 3

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat Votes: 3

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. Votes: 3

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm. Votes: 3

All confrontation is based on deception. Votes: 2

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself. Votes: 2

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly. Votes: 2

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. Votes: 2

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation. Votes: 2

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well. Votes: 2

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that. Votes: 2

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. Votes: 2

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. Votes: 2

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. Votes: 2

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. Votes: 2

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. Votes: 2

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up. Votes: 2

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race. Votes: 2

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground. Votes: 2

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. Votes: 2

I don't like confrontation. Votes: 0

Truth carries with it confrontation. Votes: 0

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation. Votes: 0

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. Votes: 0

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. Votes: 0

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation Votes: 0

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war. Votes: 0

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that. Votes: 0

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that. Votes: 0

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue. Votes: 0

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike. Votes: 0

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Votes: 0

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect. Votes: 0

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. Votes: 0

The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation. Votes: 0

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation. Votes: 0

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless. Votes: 0

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it. Votes: 0

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. Votes: 0

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life. Votes: 0

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody. Votes: 0

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. Votes: 0

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. Votes: 0

Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death. Votes: 0

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself. Votes: 0

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper. Votes: 0

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet. Votes: 0

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. Votes: 0

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies. Votes: 0

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind. Votes: 0

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. Votes: 0

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. Votes: 0

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy. Votes: 0

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy. Votes: 0

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. Votes: 0

Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless. Votes: 0

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative. Votes: 0

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation). Votes: 0

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice. Votes: 0

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin. Votes: 0

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation. Votes: 0

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.' Votes: 0

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives. Votes: 0

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods Votes: 0

I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division. Votes: 0

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. Votes: 0

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other. Votes: 0

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation. Votes: 0

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born. Votes: 0

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. Votes: 0

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy. Votes: 0

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam. Votes: 0

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue. Votes: 0

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal. Votes: 0

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. Votes: 0

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. Votes: 0

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up. Votes: 0

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region. Votes: 0

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world. Votes: 0

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. Votes: 0

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting. Votes: 0

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself. Votes: 0

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation. Votes: 0

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. Votes: 0

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers. Votes: 0

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite. Votes: 0

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition! Votes: 0

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons. Votes: 0

In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea Votes: 0

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation. Votes: 0

Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. Votes: 0

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. Votes: 0

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do. Votes: 0

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance. Votes: 0

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important. Votes: 0

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial. Votes: 0

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it. Votes: 0

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation. Votes: 0

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity. Votes: 0

When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. Votes: 0

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will. Votes: 0

I've always played nice guys, so I'd love to be someone that creates a bit of confrontation. I know that sounds bad, but as an actor, I want to explore different things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction. Votes: 0

We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe. Votes: 0

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century. Votes: 0

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation. Votes: 0

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Votes: 0

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation. Votes: 0

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation. Votes: 0

As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere. Votes: 0

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness. Votes: 0

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things. Votes: 0

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like. Votes: 0