Quotes About Confrontation

The surprise came a few months later when Slash called me and wanted to follow up on my offer to help him get some free guitars. "You want me to help you get guitars after you went around saying all that shit about me behind my back?" Slash got real quiet. "You know, one thing you're going to have to learn is not to air your dirty laundry in public. Nice knowing you. Go fuck yourself.

Denial of problems only enables and reinforces the negative behaviors.

Every day, we teach people how to treat us by showing them what we will and won't accept, what we refuse to confront, and what we let slide. We may believe that we can make another person's troublesome behavior disappear if we don't make a fuss. But the message we send is, "It worked. Do it again.

We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.

Life had been soft for so long a time, edgeless and spongy, and now, here in all its surface banality and submerged horror was this idiot event—her own doing—this undignified confrontation with mortality.

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

You're trampling my pasture." I

Lower your voice," he warned, but I'd had enough. As he reached for my arm again, I wrenched myself free and nearly flattened Boy Long in the process. I hadn't even seen him. Glancing between Jock and me quickly, gauging the situation, Boy said, "Is everything all right

Your wife happens to work for me, so I'd say it is." I was sure Jock was going to lunge for Boy. He was much the taller and broader man and could have wrecked Boy without trying—but some tide inside him turned, like a switch going off, and he thought better of it for the moment. "You should be careful, Beryl," he said icily, without taking his eyes from Boy's face. Then he stormed away.

Do you think Jock will come after me?" Boy asked when I recounted the whole story back at Soysambu. "Now that he knows about us?" "Why would he? His whole argument has been about keeping up appearances and avoiding gossip. If anything, he'll make my life harder or dig in more about the divorce." We

The one who dares a Lion should be prepared to die by its claws!

Stupid weirdo! Liar! You filthy cat-boy-!!

Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.

now that I had finally confronted him, he had lost his power over me.

Come down and fight," snarled the Hyena angrily. "Thief and scavenger yourself!

P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself

I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

Endangerment is the process of constantly projecting danger onto safe enough situations. Your recovering depends on learning how to recognize and confront the 14 inner critic attacks listed below. When this process of recovering is bypassed, these deeply engrained programs continue to send you tumbling back into the overwhelming fear, shame and hopelessness of your childhood abandonment.

You take one step closer and I'll slit your throat, you mung-encrusted camel-fucker.

And then he decided. "Fuck that shit," he told his staff. "I'll just fight him.

El día que asestes un arma en dirección a otro hombre será como si ya le hubieras matado.

the search for human freedom—freedom being the choice to be a creator of our own experience and accept the unbearable responsibility that goes with that. Out of this insight grows the idea that perhaps the real task of leadership is to confront people with their freedom. This may be the ultimate act of love that is called for from those who hold power over others.