Quotes About Confrontation

A slap on the chick

We have met the enemy and he is us.

You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free diets. You are the superstitious ones. You convince yourself you can cheat death, and you are absolutely offended when you learn that you can't. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee.

It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've ever had, the dregs of every grievance, and you set the cup in front of the other person and force them to drink it.

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

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

A man surprised is half beaten.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.