Confrontation Quotes

“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me.
"I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-"
He launched himself at me.
That was when his day really went downhill.”
― James Patterson, Max

“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.
They're fucking with the wrong people.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Book Six

“This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“She wiped sweat from her brow and took one last glance at her tiny Chicago apartment, the peeling paint and dingy windows a stark reminder of the life she was leaving behind.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

“He always was a stubborn mule. But who would actually kill him over vegetables? It just doesn’t add up.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“Willow Creek, Iowa. Population 5,241. And now, one fewer.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. "I came to find you."
"I didn't know. If I'd known..."
"It doesn't matter now." The girl's attention was unwavering. "This is where you are."
"It is at that."
The girl looked sad. Her soil-dark eyes were clouded over by tears she hadn't been able to shed. "I came here to find you."
"I couldn't have known." Maylene reached out and plucked a leaf from the girl's hair.
"Doesn't matter." She lifted a dirty hand, fingernails flashing chipped red polish, but she didn't seem to know what to do with her outstretched fingers. Little girl fears warred with teenage bravado. Bravado won. "I'm here now."
"All right, then." Maylene walked down the path toward one of the gates. She pulled the key from her handbag, twisted it in the lock, and pushed open the gate.”
― Melissa Marr, Graveminder

“A conversation is always a bother, and confrontation is worse.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Most people coming out of a war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes, for a time, all others seem alien and frivolous. Friends are glad to see you again, but you know immediately that most of them have put you to one side, and while it is easy enough to say that you should have known that before, most of us don't, and it is painful. You are face to face with what will happen to you after death.”
― Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

“I saw someone leaving the house and I thought it was Lilias,” I said, clutching at the first plausible lie I could think of. “So when I saw you go out of the gate I panicked—”

“Haven’t you ever heard of sleep ?” the boy snapped. “Isn’t that what normal people do at this time of night?”

“I don’t think they sneak around clifftops on mopeds either, do they?”
― Alex Bell, Frozen Charlotte

“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other person out when need be, if they are hiding from some hard reality. “Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality that serves nobody,” the theologian Henri Nouwen wrote. “Confrontation without receptivity leads to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“Confrontation, when handled constructively, can lead to increased self-awareness, improved relationships, and personal development. Confrontation is not synonymous with aggression; it is an assertive means of addressing conflicts and finding mutually beneficial solutions”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Confrontation can serve as a catalyst for necessary change, prompting individuals and communities to address systemic issues and work towards a better future. Avoiding it may provide temporary comfort, but embracing it with courage and empathy paves the way for long-term resolution and growth”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“I wasn't born that way. I was made this way.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“When someone says that they’re going to give me a piece of their mind, that assumes that they have a mind to give me a piece of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There's nothing about a lock,' Angela replied in a way that made it clear that there was something going on with the lock.”
― Maureen Johnson, Nine Liars

“He didn't like being confronted. He preferred the preteen version of me he met to the near adult I grew into. He liked the version of me he could push around without being pushed back. The version of me he could manipulate without me calling him out.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I didn't want to feel life or to touch anything real, for the experience of my temperament in contact with the world had taught me that the sensation of life was always painful to me. But in isolating myself to avoid that contact, I exacerbated my already overwrought sensibility. If it were possible to cut off completely all contact with things, then my sensibility would pose no problem. But this total isolation cannot be achieved. However little I do, I still breathe; however little I act, I still move. And so, having exacerbated my sensibility through isolation, I found that the tiniest things, wich even for me had been perfectly innocuous, began to wrack me like a catastrophe. I chose the wrong method of escape. I fled via an uncomfortable and roundabout route to end up at the same place I'd started from, with the fatigue of my journey added to the horror of living there.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“You've evaded me too many times”
― Ieuan Thomas Jones, The Fallen: The Dead Rises

“A man is confronted four times in life:

When he has little money.
When he has little knowledge.
When he has much money.
When he has much knowledge.”
― Marcese Maschietto

“You're scared of me right now," Borne said. "But all I did is what you both do.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“Do you ever think about just asking her, point-blank?"
Nick grunted. "I recommend that if you ask a question like that, just make sure you're really, truly ready to hear the answer.”
― Suzanne Rindell, Summer Fridays

“...They will never evolve unless confined to a cage with nothing but these texts—forced to read, reread, and ultimately confront them without any kind of external distraction.”
― Sov8840

“You don't need a confrontation. You don't need a PowerPoint, a thesis defense, or a tearful monologue in a rocking chair. You need one calm, repeated sentence that will eventually carve a new groove in the record: Mom, this isn't about you.”
― Veronica Fishbane, Dear Toxic Parent: A Ruthless Little Manual for the Once-Obedient Child