Confrontation Quotes

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

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.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

I don't like confrontation.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation