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Quotes About Confrontation

It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that's how.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
So this guy walks into a dragon's lair and he says why the long tale? HAR HAR BUDDY says the dragon FUCK YOU.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When the aliens come, there'll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one'll be longer by light years.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Running away from a problem never helps. At some point it has to be confronted and dealt with.
~ Cathy Glass
But it would be wrong of me to say that we were all on equal footing, which is why I can't just write about my bad English next to your bad English. In my efforts to speak nearby, I also have to confront the distance between us, which is challenging because once I implicate myself, I can never implicate myself enough.
~ Cathy Park Hong
assailant to freeze, the suspect appeared to raise a weapon, at which time the officer responded with lethal fire.
~ Geraldine Brooks
It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here. I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. And yet, it is not for me to weigh this balance: Christ, and knowledge against a pagan pantheon and an unaccomodated wilderness existence.
~ Geraldine Brooks
when every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?
~ Gerard Way
Braveggia, urla! T'affretta a palesarmi il fondo dell'alma ria!'' ''Shout, braggart! What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!
~ Giacomo Puccini
antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other
~ Giles Milton
Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.
~ Gina Greenlee
You'd be surprised who will back down when you speak up.
~ Gina Greenlee
Nella vita ci sono cose che ti cerchi e altre che ti vengono a cercare. Non le hai scelte e nemmeno le vorresti, ma arrivano e dopo non sei più uguale. A quel punto le soluzioni sono due: o scappi cercando di lasciarrele alle spalle o ti fermi e le affronti
~ Giorgio Faletti
Desde entonces comenzó la guerra entre los hombres y yo.
~ Giovanni Papini
If you ask her, I'll kill you," says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced—really, reintroduced—Mona prepares to ask her immediately.
~ Gish Jen
primeira metade do século vinte no fundo não terá sido nada senão isso: um confronto titânico entre artistas. Estaline, Hitler, Churchill. Depois chegaram os burocratas
~ Giuliano da Empoli
a primeira metade do século vinte no fundo não terá sido nada senão isso: um confronto titânico entre artistas. Estaline, Hitler, Churchill. Depois chegaram os burocratas
~ Giuliano da Empoli
Uniti rappresentavano un fronte invincibile. Doveva cercare di affrontarli a uno a uno. Perché nell'uomo solo anche la corazza del male è più fragile. Quando la coscienza inquieta urla e non c'è un coro di voci a sopraffarla.
~ Giulio Leoni
Don't kill me—you fucking cunt. Hot tip. If you're trying to get someone to not kill you, avoid calling him a fucking cunt.
~ Glen Duncan
The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
~ Glen Duncan