Quotes About Confrontation

Peace was not the absence of conflict; it was having the courage to face the conflict and make the right choices.

The design is based on the old St. Stephen's Chapel, where the earliest parliamentarians sat, like choirboys in facing pews, yet there is little that is angelic in the modern set-up. Members face each other in confrontation, as antagonists. They are separated by two red lines on the carpet, whose distance apart represents the distance of two sword lengths, yet this is misleading, for the most imminent danger is never more than a dagger's distance away, on the benches behind.

This is analogous to the situation in which the robber says, "stick 'em up, I want your money," and the deranged-looking victim says "If you take it, I will explode this bomb and kill us both!

You'd really set a hungry werewolf free? Do you know what that means? Nobody would be safe from me.' 'I know,' said Atreyu. 'But I'm Nobody. Why should I be afraid of you?

What was the secret to dealing with the assholes? "Lift weights or learn karate," said O'Grady.

The method of his execution was unsurprising: Trump always avoided firing people himself. The man who played Mr. You're Fired on TV avoided personal confrontation in real life.

The professors argued that Netscape courted disaster from the start, by taunting Microsoft. "Mooning the Giant

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.

Then Elric rushed towards the thing, shouting the names which now had no meaning to his surface consciousness. "Balaan—Marthim! Aesma! Alastor! Saebos! Verdelet! Nizilfkm! Haborym! Haborym of the Fires Which Destroy!

He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye

was reminded of the "flight instructions" that the guides employed at Johns Hopkins: instead of turning away from any monster that appears, move toward it, stand your ground, and demand to know, "What are you doing in my mind? What do you have to teach me?

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

I've actually said 'get off my grass' to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!

To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it. It requires a confrontation with reality, with history, with ethics and morals. After identifying good content, you have to find the right form to express that content.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

I love taking the ball from other people. It's like taking their manhood.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Penelope (the parrot) squawked, 'I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!' Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn't dare to look at her mother….