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Quotes About Confrontation

But now he stops hammering, his back still to me when he yells, "Would you stop staring at me?
~ Simone Elkeles
Elena opens the door and yanks me through the house, stopping only when we reach the backyard. She lets me go only to grab the microphone from the lead singer. "Paco!" she announces loudly. "Yeah, I'm talkin' to you," Elena says, pointing to Paco talking to a bunch of girls. "Next time you want to take a dump, do it in someone else's house." Paco's entourage of girls backs up and giggles, leaving him alone.
~ Simone Elkeles
Trying to run from problems, is the same as trying to run away from our own shadow.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
We all like the idea of freedom of speech, but nobody likes to be confronted by the truth.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
@joey fight me IRL
~ Sir Issac Newton
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
~ John Ortberg
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
~ Stan Brakhage
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
~ Trisha Yearwood
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
~ Rajneesh
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.
~ Jenny Han
Max dijo QUIETOS y los amansó con el truco mágico de mirar fijamente a los ojos amarillos de todos ellos sin pestañear una sola vez y se asustaron y dijeron que era el más monstruo de todos.
~ Maurice Sendak
Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks!
~ Max Allan Collins
You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'
~ Max Barry
most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. How
~ Max Brooks
No tienes que ser el puto Sun Tzu para saber que la verdadera batalla no consiste en matar, ni siquiera en herir al otro, sino en asustarlos lo suficiente para que lo deje.
~ Max Brooks
real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. Break
~ Max Brooks
Facts are supposed to banish monsters… She sighs. …not invite them in.
~ Max Brooks
most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
~ Max Brooks
Beneath the epidermis of today's deeds are the unresolved actions of years past.
~ Max Lucado
La conclusión está clara: llévale tus problemas a Jesús. No los lleves al bar. Jim Beam no puede solucionarlos. No te desquites con otros. Los arrebatos de ira nunca pueden defender una causa. Tan pronto percibas un problema, ya sea grande o pequeño, llévalo a Cristo.
~ Max Lucado
I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, Hello, Reverend Thomas, I would choke on the sin of mocking him.
~ Maya Angelou
Even Christ Himself turned His back on Satan. Wouldn't He turn His back on me? I could feel the evilness flowing through my body and waiting, pent up, to rush off my tongue if I tried to open my mouth. I clamped my teeth shut, I'd hold it in. If it escaped, wouldn't it flood the world and all the innocent people?
~ Maya Angelou