Confrontation Quotes

• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Truth carries with it confrontation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Carrie

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Mean

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• Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Demand

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pain, Mean, Mind

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• I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

  Drake

  Confidence, Hater, Humble

  Song: A Scorpio's Mind

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• Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, People, Conversation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Evil, Circumstances

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• There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Progress, Argument

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.151, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Differences

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

  Irving Kristol

  Two, Issues, Evil

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

  David Coverdale

  People, Should, Knows

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• I don't like confrontation.

  Terry Bradshaw

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• Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Europe, Important, Nuclear

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• President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  People, President, Way

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• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

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• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

  Alva Myrdal

  Military, War, Preparation

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

  Kim Young-sam

  Military, Korea, Genocide

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• Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Attitude, Long

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.172, Penguin Books India

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Peace

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.

  Lewis Thomas

  Truth, Ignorance, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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

  Trisha Yearwood

  Healthy, Affection, Tense

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• The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

  Angela Carter

  Sleep, Bed, Tables

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• Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Worry, Doe

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