David Augsburger Quotes

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that's terrifying for me.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

Angus has had a few swings at me, maybe two or three times in our whole career. But then it's done, and it's not gonna drag on, because it's not worth it. We have to stick together. And we know that.

I don't have no personal problems with nobody.

I don't like upsetting people.

If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

Fighting lives and dies; you can't fight forever.

There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

When faced with a situation, the confidence you stand up to that situation with usually pushes the other person to back down because the guy that is trying to start the fight doesn't really want to fight. He just wants a scene.

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.