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Quotes About Confrontation

What was it that made the black robes desperate to gather up the spirits of the Anishinaabeg for their god? Fleur decided that the chimookoman god was greedy, which made sense as all the people she had seen of their kind certainly were, grabbing up Anishinaabeg land, hunting down every last animal and wasting half the meat, swiping all they could.
~ Louise Erdrich
Leer a Céline presupone enfrentarse a una reducida pero intensa e insistente constelación de sombras fantasmales que, situadas entre el lector y el texto
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I stared into the lion's eyes and knew that he could take me down so easily. He'd swipe me with his curved claws, clamp his fangs around my throat or my skull, kill me in an instant.
~ Luanne Rice
Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.
~ Luke Davies
She wanted a reaction. As usual, I felt nothing but the desire not to have a confrontation.
~ Luke Davies
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.")
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado.
~ Lyman Frank Baum
Alfie,' Katherine said quietly, but was sorry she'd spoken when she saw that intense look come into his eyes. Oh, this was terrible but what could she do about it? Certainly nothing at this
~ Lyn Andrews
Chucky] Ya peanut headed suckerfool! Take me on! Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants! You think I'm playin'?
~ Lynda Barry
She held out her hand. "What is it you want?" he rumbled. "Your ring." He frowned. "And if I'm not inclined to give it?" "Then you'll have a few silent days to look forward to." She lifted her eyebrows in challenge. "And you know how good I am at that." He muttered under his breath as he pulled off the ring and handed it to her.
~ Lynn Kurland
It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
You touch—I kill!" the Indian growled ferociously.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
L'insulto é l'arma del debole.
~ Lynne Truss
You horrible, horrible man! Lisa yelled. How could you even show your face here, you bounder? Christiana snapped. You vile debaucher of innocents, Lisa added. She loved you, you cad! You've broken her heart! You should be shot for toying with her that way!
~ Lynsay Sands
You might consider letting us go and minding your own business...or else I shall be forced to stomp on your foot, sir. My lord, he corrected, sounding amused at her threat. Daniel, Lord Woodrow.
~ Lynsay Sands
But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God. There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.25
~ M. Scott Peck
If they love their children parents must, sparingly and carefully perhaps but nonetheless actively, confront and criticize them from time to time, just as they must allow their children to confront and criticize themselves in turn. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners.
~ M. Scott Peck
But the reality of life is such that at times one person does know better than the other what is good for the other, and in actuality is in a position of superior knowledge or wisdom in regard to the matter at hand. Under these circumstances the wiser of the two does in fact have an obligation to confront the other with the problem.
~ M. Scott Peck
The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.
~ M. Scott Peck
To fail to confront when confrontation is required for the nurture of spiritual growth represents a failure to love equally as does thoughtless criticism or condemnation and other forms of active deprivation of caring.
~ M. Scott Peck
To confront one's beloved is to assume a position of moral or intellectual superiority over the loved one, at least so far as the issue at hand is concerned. Yet genuine love recognizes and respects the unique individuality and separate identity of the other person.
~ M. Scott Peck
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all
~ M. Scott Peck
As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
~ M.J. Rose
Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
~ Machiavelli, Niccolò