Quotes About Confrontation

Irene gasped. Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart? she hissed. Have you? Stuart closed his eyes. No, he said. Au contraire. It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it. Don't au contraire me, said Irene. But it was too late. He had.

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away

There are many people who are frightened of something or other, Mma, she said. Even here in Botswana there are people who are frightened. They had looked at each other without saying anything. Each knew what the other meant; each knew that there were things that people preferred not to acknowledge not to admit, lest the admission encourage that which needed no encouragement.

I suppose that's the way affairs come to an end. Somebody grabs a fork and stabs the other in the hand. And that's it

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour.

She did not have strong views on politics. She did not like the confrontational nature of much political discussion; why could people not argue politely, she wondered, taking into account the views of others and accepting that people might differ with one another in perfectly good faith?

Cover hatred and fear with love and delight, and with innocent things. With love and delight, and with innocent things. The trouble was that people were cynical about innocent things, or too embarrassed to celebrate them. The proponents of confrontation, violence, the acerbic comment, laughed at innocent things, thought them naïve, considered them beneath them. How easy it was to destroy the civilised structures of the world; how easy to poison the wells.

Cover hatred and fear with love and delight, and with innocent things...The proponents of confrontation, violence, the acerbic comment, laughed at the innocent things, thought them naive, considered them beneath them. How easy it was to destroy the civilised structures of the world; how easy to poison the wells.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

It was as if I'd been running from my past, my story, my pain, and I'd run smack into myself again," she says.

Don't push me woman," Casey warned, steering her weaving form down the hall. "I'm not as nice as Kaiser. You tease me and I'll nail you in a heartbeat.

So on May 1 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

I took his aftershave and cologne out of the medicine cabinet. It occurred to me that he'd been wearing these for Karen. I peed in the bathroom glass, drained the Aramis and poured urine into two of his cologne bottles. "Up yours," I said quietly. I dropped the bottles in his bag and zipped it closed.

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

Billy walked up to the car and bent down to look inside. 'Major Foster, what a pleasant surprise,' he said sarcastically. 'I'm glad you've popped round; it gives me the chance to tell you to f**k off.' Foster smiled in response

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

The physicist glared at him defiantly but allowed herself to be carried without further theatrics.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

We both absently pulled handguns from our holsters and extended them outward.