Julia Stiles

At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

American Actress

Haile Selassie

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Ethiopian Statesman

Page McConnell

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

American Musician

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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

Filipino Statesman

David Bowie

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

English Musician

Nikki Glaser

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

American Comedian

Penn Jillette

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

American Entertainer

Sharon Van Etten

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

Bill Kaulitz

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

German Musician

Elisabeth Moss

Confrontations often involve negative feelings, such as anger or frustration, during disagreements.

Negative Emotions

Confrontations can highlight power struggles, with each side trying to assert authority.

Power Dynamics

Confrontations can range from mild, verbal disagreements to intense, physical altercations.

Scalable Intensity

Confrontation implies meeting a challenge head-on, often with courage or determination.

Facing Challenges

A confrontation can be sudden and catch someone off-guard, requiring quick reaction or adaptation.

Unexpected

Some confrontations are inevitable, especially when facing unavoidable truths or events.

Unavoidable Situations

In some contexts, confrontation is necessary for resolving issues and finding solutions.

Problem Solving

Confrontations, when managed well, can lead to clearer understanding between parties.

Clear Communication

Confrontations don't always have to be negative; they can be respectful exchanges of differing views.

Respectful Disagreement

 smart you know let's avoid confrontation get a bear spray it's worth 30 bucks and traveling groups make some noise and if you kind of feel uneasy turn around go with your gut it's important for us as people to step back and go home okay what would life be like if we weren't the center of the universe how can we

People and Bears Live in...

 that have obstructed the mind in moving forward and of course what is radical is to confront them. And I think our architecture is a confrontation with our own senses. Therefore I believe it should not be cool. There is a lot of appreciation for the kind of cool architecture.

Daniel Libeskind's 17...

 confrontations between males always begin with a shouting match they're kind of like two guys in a pub car park after closing time sizing each other up just letting rip with that enormous bellow and it resonates around that grotesque nose the bigger the seat the deeper it's

Up Close to Elephant...

 are practicing to Duck and Cover just as you do in your school this was basically an attempt to teach our school children that if we did get engaged in a nuclear confrontation and atomic war then we wanted our school children to kind of basically Duck and Cover that was the

Surviving a nuclear...

 is holding its third meeting at the University of Cambridge. It's the first night of the meeting, and a confrontation is about to take place that will change science forever. An elderly, white-haired man stands up. The members of the Association are shocked to realize

Laura Snyder: The...

 I document what these groups do when they're not shooting. My goal is to better understand these violent actors and to study ways to encourage transition from violent engagement to nonviolent confrontation. I work in the field, in the policy world and in the library.

The surprising way...

 But so those are all parts of our bodies where we very directly interact with our environment, in a direct confrontation, if you like. It's easy to imagine how particularly those parts of our bodies were quickly influenced by selection from the environment

Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...

 dialogue we wanted to have a tougher confrontation and ran the corporations more that's not how we wanted to do this it was important for me to have an open dialogue to use transparency and to try to use dialogue above all means to

Justice for Martine Vik...

 and then in all other participants, who gradually but courageously moved from despair to determination, from confrontation to collaboration, until we collectively delivered the global agreement.

The case for stubborn...

 we're gonna try a little experiment involving this van four guys in a little confrontation okay guys thanks for helping out here's our plan we're gonna ride around in this van looking for cars