Quotes About Confrontation

What does one say to a woman who has just killed her husband?

It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

Anne's awfully sensitive,' said Rhoda. 'And she's bad about—well, facing things. If anything's upset her, she'd just rather not talk about it,

Put that in your moustache and smoke it.

You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.

One must have the courage to face reality. Without that courage, life is meaningless. The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality

But I tell you this—if you try and saddle Fleetwood with this business you'll have me to deal with." "And who exactly are you?" asked Poirot sweetly. Mr. Ferguson got rather red.

Anne e groaznic de sensibil?, continu? Rhoda. ?i nu se pricepe s? ias? din situa?iile nepl?cute. Dac? o sup?r? ceva, prefer? s? nu vorbeasc? despre asta, de?i nu-i folose?te la nimic - cel pu?in, nu cred. Lucrurile sunt la fel, indiferent c? vorbe?ti despre ele sau nu. Doar fugi de ele ?i te prefaci c? nu exist?.

But I did see that her dislike of Mrs. Leidner might have made her succumb to the temptation of, well—putting the wind up her—to put it vulgarly. She might have hoped to frighten away Mrs. Leidner from the dig.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

I often say that if you see a ghost, face the ghost nose to nose and say "boo." The ghost will run a mile; it's more scared of you than you are of it. When

I had slept like a log, and I couldn't remember anything frightening from my dreams. This seemed so strange to me that I asked my brother how it could have come about. "If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of." Looking back on that excursion now, I realize that it must have been horrifying for my brother too. It had been an expedition to conquer fear.

I looked up at myself in the mirror of my trailer. I had just had the most horrible conversation of my life, and the very last conversation I would ever have with my tormentor. I was free of him at last. I wonder what he would have done had he known that during that conversation, I was wearing high heels, a bra and panties, and a full face of makeup.

What was Trotsky's quote? "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

savaged him

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well.

match for what looked like MAC-10s the bank robbers were toting, but what can you do? Sometimes you're just

Good thing I'm driving or I'd kick you in the balls. Oh, wait, we're in England. I'd kick you in the bollocks.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both men were carrying -- or at least aiming -- what could only be categorised as small artillery pieces: two bulky gas-powered spinguns, so heavy that they had to be strapped to their bodies via thick leather girdles. Malkin was aiming at the angels, more or less.

I know a lot of Cup Series champions, and they each have a very different personality. They all go about handling adversity, their challenges, and even confrontation a little differently.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.