A Quote by Christopher Jones

In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.

Christopher Jones

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Avoid Confrontation Embrace Friendship Maintain Order Rather

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Christopher Jones
American - Actor
Born: February 4, 1982

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Aristotle

If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.

Confucius

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

Bill Scott

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Franz Kafka

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

Gautama Buddha

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

Francis Schaeffer

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

David Coverdale

I really do not like confrontation. I will kind of do anything to avoid it.

Kiana Madeira

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

Julie Delpy

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

Zadie Smith

Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that's what I try and do.

Mick Hucknall

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

Nikki Glaser

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.