Quotes about Confrontation
Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!
- Herman Melville
If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
- Charles Stanley
I'm not going to help you pretend—by arguing with you—that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.
- Ayn Rand
We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.
- Ayn Rand
We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
- Barack Obama
Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.
- Barbara Kingsolver
But in the long run, people will trust and respect you if you are honest and open and kind with them. You care enough to confront. And to be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved.
- Stephen Covey
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville
That's how you know you've mastered a videogame—when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they've just suffered at your hands.
- Ernest Cline
I tried to slip past her again, but she blocked my path and then stomped her foot down in front of me again, pretending like she was Gandalf and I was the balrog.
- Ernest Cline
I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.
- Ernest Cline
Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.
- Eugene Peterson