Quotes About Confrontation

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

Accepting fear head-on is freeing.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.

Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

I never looked for trouble, but when it found me, I wouldn't hesitate.

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.

GSP can't hide from me forever, you know.

Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there, and he is going to get you.

You can't win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

what can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself?

There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.

He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of number 6 shot into the darkness. The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn

What I'm putting forth, he said, is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old mind-sets about monogamy. The world's gone crazy. Let's do the same. The answer is no, Dad said. And I'm surprised I'm not punching you.

How many times, through the long centuries of life on earth, has one group of men sneaked armed into the woods, hoping to surprise a second group not expecting them? And where has this gotten us?

When a confrontation occurs, people rush toward it, to film it and stoke it, in the hope that someone on the other side will fly off the handle and do something extreme, and thereby incontrovertibly discredit his side of the argument. This river-and-shore arrangement advantages the Trump supporters: they can walk coolly past, playing the offended party, refusing to engage.

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

Bilateral negotiations with a tyrant rarely turn out well for a democracy. Because they are subjected to little accountability, totalitarian regimes face no pressure to honor their word. They are free to break agreements and then make new demands. A democracy has a choice: give in or provoke a confrontation.