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Quotes About Confrontation

One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.
~ Marie Howe
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
~ Marilyn Manson
The beautiful thing about fear is when you run to it, it runs away
~ Robin S. Sharma
I turned to face her. "What about fear. Can you outrun it?""Only if ye stand still and face it do ye have a chance against fear.
~ Unknown
When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.
~ Unknown
He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.
~ Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
~ Otto von Bismarck
One sure way to excel in life, be fabulous and fantastic is to know your fears and deal with them with fierce.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?
~ Joseph Conrad
Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.
~ Hillary Clinton
Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?
~ Big Daddy Kane
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?
~ Derrick Jensen
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
~ Joseph Stalin
Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.
~ Unknown
No one has the right to live without being shocked.
~ Philip Pullman
In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.
~ Joe Louis
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
~ Unknown
Realizing you're wrong in the middle of an argument but fighting anyway...all in the name of pride.
~ Unknown
This conflict between self and society is a perpetual battle that continues until one side gives in. And society never does.
~ Ruben Papian
We stopped checking for monsters under our beds when we realized they were inside us.
~ Unknown
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian
~ Samuel Johnson