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Quotes About Confrontation

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
~ David D. Burns
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
~ Boyle Roche
I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
I'd like to have a business card saying: Bruce Norris kicked your arse.
~ Robert Muchamore
...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'
~ Jimmie Johnson
Are you coming along peaceful-like, or am I going to have to hog-tie you and put you in the car?
~ Jennifer Estep
What are you doing? (Amanda) I'm getting into my car. (Kyrian) You own this?! (Amanda) No. I'm stealing it with the key in my hand. (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I'm driving my car! (Tory)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'
~ Dick Armey
Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it's where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.
~ Pema Chodron
The English rose against William every year between 1067 and 1070.
~ Peter Ackroyd
If I have a bow and arrow, Commander, I don't shoot a padded shaft to my target's left in order to express my annoyance. I fire a steel-tipped arrow into his leg.
~ Peter David
Uh, after the meeting was over, this is what Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I didn't see it but I heard that uh, [Platinum official] Mark [Peretz] Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and uh, his bodyguard [Paris Christoforou of the Hells Angels] I guess Ã¢â'¬Â¦ kicked [Modica] in the face and put a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ gun in his mouth.
~ Unknown
Problems have to be taken care of, of course; they must not be swept under the rug.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Browne stared at Banks and his eyes narrowed, turned
~ Peter Robinson
But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw—one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.
~ Unknown
Burton struggled to get up onto his feet. Nobody, not even God, was going to punch Richard Burton in the ribs and get away without a battle.
~ Philip José Farmer
I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
~ Philip K. Dick
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.
~ Philip K. Dick
That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...
~ Philip K. Dick
It horrified him, this thought: the ancient gigantic cannibal near-man flourishing now, ruling the world once more. We spent a million years escaping him, Frink thought, and now he's back. And not merely as the adversary . . . but as the master.
~ Philip K. Dick
When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.
~ Philip K. Dick