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Quotes About Confrontation

Pop didn't believe in discussing problems--'Just goin' out of your way to look for trouble,' was his answer to anything that looked like a serious question.
~ Ann Petry
I wasn't frightened. I was just afraid." Her aunt smiled. "Is there a difference?" "Oh yes," Eleanor said. "When you're frightened you run away. When you're afraid you keep on doing what you're supposed to do.
~ Ann Weil
our modern day when we can neither endure our vices, nor face the remedies needed to cure them.
~ Ann Wroe
Religion is a drug, and to take drugs is degrading,' he said. 'You must learn to look life in the face. Throw away your cowardly drugs, and see the truth, the ugly, cruel, ungodly truth, as it really is.
~ Anna Kavan
Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.
~ Anne Bishop
Monty blinked. "On what charge, sir?" "On the charge of being a pain in my ass," Burke growled. "And right now, that is good enough for an overnight stay in our facility.
~ Anne Bishop
And sometimes loving someone means being willing to fight them into the ground if they're putting themselves in danger or doing something wrong.
~ Anne Bishop
Victory implies a fight, and there is nothing to be gained by fighting with us. The humans can't win.
~ Anne Bishop
HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN.
~ Anne Bishop
Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as lava. She listens to the black space where his consciousness is, moving towards her.
~ Anne Carson
I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are no longer going all their way.
~ Anne Fine
I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.
~ Anne Fine
Giving in to bullies just encouraged them. Bullies needed to be stood up to.
~ Anne Gracie
These symptoms could be alleviated best, he learned, by encouraging soldiers to confront the frightening memories and make some kind of peace with them.
~ Anne Harrington
What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?
~ Anne Stuart
Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures me that anyone who's ever met me would have reason to shoot me, so I must admit with all candor that I have no idea. Was it you?" "If I'd shot you I wouldn't have missed," she said. "Was that wishful thinking or are you in fact a practiced shot?" "Desire would have made up for lack of expertise.
~ Anne Stuart
It was not supposed to be this easy. This was to be the final confrontation. There was to be struggle, torment, despair. But the witch—who was the only person in the woods who wanted nothing—was not what Hazel had to defeat.
~ Anne Ursu
He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.
~ Anne Ursu
This crisis had forced me to confront what was most important to me, rather than what I was conditioned to want, or perhaps what I had conditioned myself to want.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.
~ Annie Barrows
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
~ Anonymous
There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
~ Paul Watson
I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
~ Michael Trucco
To promote a fight with Adrien Broner would obviously be an exciting trash-talking event and one that I believe would enjoy.
~ Keith Thurman