Quotes About Confrontation

I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

Unless the immigration issue is tackled in a constructive way, Mexico and the United States will probably revert to a historic cycle of confrontation and recrimination.

I'm not going to lie. I'd love to have the mic in my hand opposite of Dixie Carter in the ring and say my piece, say what's on my mind. And if she's willing to sit there and listen to it, I think it could make for some great television.

You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

Politicians try to make friends, build constituencies, and avoid gaffes. Trump does the opposite, seeking out land mines in order to detonate them.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?

Usually when anger manifests, we want to confront the person we think is the source of our anger. We're more interested in setting that person straight than in taking care of the more urgent matter, which is our own anger. We are like the person whose house is on fire who goes chasing after the arsonist instead of going home to put out the fire.

Children exposed to early violence display altered responses to confrontation and conflict; in essence they are 'hard-wired' to be anxious, distractible, highly aroused, and impulsively aggressive in situations of conflict.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

All our lives we run away from amateurishness and it always catches up with us, I thought, we want nothing with greater passion than to escape our lifelong amateurishness and it always catches up with us.

To get ourselves out of a tight spot, it seems to me, we are ourselves just as mendacious as those we are always accusing of mendacity, those whom we despise and drag in the dirt for their mendacity;

I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars!

Burning for burning; wound for wound: strife for strife.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

I'm going to cut you loose. With all due respect, Doctor, if you fuck with me I'll shoot you dead, here and now. Do you understand that?- Clarice Perfectly.- Hannibal Lecter Do right and you'll live through this. -Clarice

Do you know how you caught me, Will?' 'Good-bye, Dr. Lecter. You can leave messages for me at the number on the file.' Graham walked away. 'Do you know how you caught me?' Graham was out of Lecter's sight now, and he walked faster toward the far steel door. 'The reason you caught me is that we're just alike' was the last thing Graham heard as the steel door closed behind him.

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

she shot him in the face as he slid down the door facing and she shot him in the face as he sat on the floor and she ran to him and shot him twice in the face as he sprawled against the wall, scalp down to his chin and his hair on fire.

It occurred to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.