Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

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

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

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 really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.

My boyfriend and I have finally learned how to embrace confrontation as something that will only help us as a couple.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada, Europe.

I'm opinionated, and I'm comfortable with confrontation. I'm very happy to say if I believe the opposite of what you think.

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

I'm not afraid of confrontation. It doesn't have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to.

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

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

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

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.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

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 mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

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 don't like confrontation. I don't care about it. If someone tries it with me, they will be talking to themselves because I don't listen.

Anyone who lives in N.Y.C. will tell you that getting into a confrontation on a city street is a complete nightmare 100 percent of the time.

With Faith No More, even though we're a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

I have never really had any ugly confrontations, other than Bobby Knight, and that was before I was doing sports talk radio. He is just a very difficult guy.

Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the national life.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again?

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.

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