Quotes About Confrontation

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

If they do not bring peace, we shall give them death.

Nothing attracts a serious duel like an inconclusive one.

Not before I have killed you, poltroon! cried d'Artagnan, making the best face possible, and

D'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation

The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.

Christ Almighty! To see yourself... face to face.,. The clothes were on fire. Did you see that? What in God's name was it?' 'It was Gully Foyle,' Robin said, 'burning in hell.

Foyle was brought up with a jolt. 'You mean I've been running away from something?' 'Obviously.' 'From what?' 'From reality. You can't accept life as it is. You refuse. You attack it . . . try to force it into your own pattern. You attack and destroy everything that stands in the way of your own insane pattern.

I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors.

Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think, but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them disappear.

Natalia refused to let go of her grandchildren. If anything, that was her philosophy. That was the reason she had slapped Claire's face. "Wake up!" she cried.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

What is wrong with you?" their father was saying. "Why can't you behave?" Michael—it was not fear on his face, only a kind of disbelief, as if this tall, red-faced, shouting man had materialized out of the wind—looked up to say, "Just playing. I was just playing." But

That night when he came to claim her, he stood on the short lawn before her house, his knees bent, his fists driven into his thighs, and bellowed her name with such passion that even the friends who surrounded him, who had come to support him, to drag her from the house, to murder her family if they had to

I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.

Quería saber. No había protección como no fuera en el saber. Quería ver la muerte sujeta y aislada detrás de una pared de hechos y circunstancias particulares, y no flotando libremente alrededor, ignorada pero poderosa, lista para colarse en cualquier parte.

Her teeth were crowded to the front of her mouth as if they were ready for an argument