Avoidance of Confrontation Quotes

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

I always say a lot of fake friends are the ones I can't get into a fight with, because if I get into a fight with them, it's over.