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Quotes About Confrontation

What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Liar. Is it Rafe?" When I hesitated, his hands clenched, jaw clenching with them. "That son of a bitch," he muttered. "This is the part where you get to say 'I told you so.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I was in the Tillsons' bathroom, still dressed, starting the shower, when I heard a faint click, and I wheeled to see Rafe coming in, holding a card he'd used to pop the lock. His free hand covered his eyes. "Excuse--" I began. "Oh, sorry. Didn't know you were in here," he said, his hand still over his eyes as he frantically motioned, apparently trying to stop me from stating the obvious--that he'd broken in and knew full well I was here.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You never know what you're missing when you run away from a conversation.
~ Kelly Eileen Hake
Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.
~ Ken Bruen
Dennis Wheatley
~ Ken Bruen
La característica más asombrosa del liderazgo soviético de los anteriores sesenta y cinco años era la negativa a afrontar los hechos.
~ Ken Follett
When there is no longer any possibility of running away, you realize how fiercely you can fight.
~ Ken Follett
N'importe quel imbécile peut se lancer dans une bagarre, mais le sage sait les éviter.
~ Ken Follett
stood there. Vasili was behind her. Tanya
~ Ken Follett
O código de cavalaria não autorizava a nobreza francesa a ficar escondida atrás dos arqueiros mal nascidos, e aquela avançou para entrar em confronto com os cavaleiros ingleses – abdicando assim dos benefícios que a posição em que se encontravam lhes conferia.
~ Ken Follett
DEFCON 3 Capítulo 31 Capítulo 32 Capítulo 33 Capítulo 34 Capítulo 35 Capítulo 36 DEFCON 2 Capítulo
~ Ken Follett
I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.
~ Ken Kesey
and if I don't have her to where she don't know whether to shit or go blind, the bet is yours.
~ Ken Kesey
The big, hard body had a tough grip on life. It fought a long time against having it taken away, flailing and thrashing around so much I finally had to lie full length on top of it and scissor the kicking legs with mine while I mashed the pillow into the face. I lay there on top of the body for what seemed days.
~ Ken Kesey
you're not going to pull that hen house shit now, are you? --RP McMurphy
~ Ken Kesey
Step Two: Face It. Once you have a good deal of videotape of the problematic item, then face it. If the symptom seems to be triggered by a particular person, then locate that person in your mind, and face him or her (or them). It might help to sit in a chair and put another "empty chair" in front of you. Put the problem in the empty chair—the person, monster, image, event, or simply the symptom itself (depression, anxiety, fear, envy).
~ Ken Wilber
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
~ Frank Herbert
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
~ Lucan
Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.
~ Eileen O'Brien
I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
~ Muhammad Ali
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
~ Peter McWilliams
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
~ Orson Scott Card
No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.
~ Marie Lu, The Midnight Star