Quotes About Confrontation

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed

In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.

Since Mrs Pargeter had always favoured pulling bushes up by the roots rather than beating about them, she again asked directly what his problem was or who was making his life difficult

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she—this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"—deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

If you point out that they're walking in shit they scream it's you that have dirty feet.

Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of great superiority from this very cowardice itself.

Cada sexo cree justificarse tomando la ofensiva: pero los entuertos de uno no absuelven al otro.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

And therefor, sir,' seyde the Bysshop, 'leve thys opynyon, other ellis I shall curse you with booke, belle and candyll.' 'Do thou thy warste,' seyde Mordred, 'and I defyghe the!

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.

I've confromted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.

Sweetheart, I know you think it'll be a cathartic experience and you'll say your piece and everyone will come away the wiser,' says Dad. 'But in real life that doesn't happen. I've confronted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.

You can't fix something if you're hiding from it.

How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! I knew it well, but I put it from my mind, else I never would have come.

I say you are the murderer you hunt.

I pity you, flinging at me the very insults each man here will fling at you so soon.

And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children.

I, with my eyes, how could I look my father in the eyes when I go down to death?

I am a fork, and I will stick you!

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.