Alanis Morissette Quotes

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

I don't like upsetting people.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

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 think early on in the league, my biggest problem was I tried to put out what I believe was an innocent fire because I felt it was a conflict with other stars.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

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

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.