Quotes About Confrontation

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.

Vyasa thus shows how confrontation and conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.

Ultimately, all wars can be traced to the simplest of quarrels where man is eager to overpower rather than indulge the other.

Truth can terrify. But there are many who face truth fearlessly.

Ahora que finalmente me he enfrentado a las pesadillas que acosaban mis noches puedo aceptar el fantasma de mi pasado.

They stared at each other and then, at last, Kai closed his eyes and nodded his head, just once. The estates would always win.

Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She had to get to the vault before they came running to stop her like a horde of hysterical nannies.

Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?" Alec: "...God, I think...

I bristled, but tried not to show it. The last thing I wanted today was an argument with Charlotte. She was still furious with me for telling Mary Ella the truth about her surgery—which I admitted to her before Ann Laing had a chance to tell her—and she was never going to let me forget about the beach trip, either. "I'm going to go over to the Harts' house this week to see how they're doing," I said

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. Fuck them.

in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on and eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

58 Cuando vas junto con tu contrario a querellarte ante el magistrado, haz en el camino todo lo posible por librarte de él, no sea que por fuerza te lleve al juez, y el juez te entregue al alguacil, y el alguacil te meta en la cárcel. 59 Porque yo te aseguro que de ella no saldrás, hasta que hayas pagado el último maravedí. 13

All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, 'Tell me why I shouldn't kill you.'  One motherfuck of an essay question. 

If you let people believe that you're weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

You don't let them knock you out, you make them knock you out. You make them break their fucking hands knocking you out, you let them know that they've been in a fight, you give them something to remember you by every time they look in a mirror.

There is nothing to facing your own fears. Confronting OTHER PEOPLE'S fears of YOU... that's the challenge and test of character!

sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.

I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.

I sat up and the room was full of a man with a gun.

Zachary's partner, a younger man with a moustache named Freedly— Well, no. The man was named Freedly. Zachary's partner, a younger man named Freedly with a moustache— Zachary's partner, a moustached younger man named Freedly— Freedly said, "Have you got the ring on you?

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.