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Quotes About Confrontation

The water pushed at us like a thug wanting our lunch money.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Why don't you just tell him what he wants to know?" "I do not like bullies. And I have never responded well to threats of force."She paused. "Also, I believe he will kill me anyway." "Why?" "Because that is what he does.
~ Joe Schreiber
You are very bold," he said, gripping her hand. "We will see how bold you are when I rip your nails out." "Go ahead," she said. "I feel nothing. I am already dead." Now Slavin's grin became real again. Real and hungry.
~ Joe Schreiber
I put down the stack of pages and turned around to face him directly, just as he'd always taught me to do once I realized I was in for a fight.
~ Joe Schreiber
Come on then!" Lussk was laughing, jeering as the things charged at him. He'd stopped fighting them off and instead had allowed them full access to his wrists, which Rucker saw he'd slashed open with a dinner knife. Blood poured from his arms. "Come on and take me!" His voice became a scream.
~ Joe Schreiber
Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low.
~ Joel Chandler Harris
Join the Fleet, travel the galaxy, meet interesting new people and kill them.
~ Joel Shepherd
I don't need to be babied. I've taken care of myself for a long time." "You need all the babying you can get, angel. And something's bothering you. Are you going to tell me what's going on?" "Go to hell." She slammed down the phone. She tightened her chin and her resolve. "I didn't expect to see you so soon." "I was told to go to hell. My connecting flight was delayed so I thought I'd drop in.
~ Joey W. Hill
Get out." Marcus' eyes went freezing cold, his face as hard mask, the cleaned but unstitched slash making him look far more dangerous. "I don't want to deal with this carp right now." "I've never gotten in, so how the hell can I get out?
~ Joey W. Hill
Are we going to stand up and fight invasive technologies or are we going to let them win by default?
~ Johann Hari
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, And each will wrestle for the mastery there.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But I've got you, you're caught! For a half-hellhound like you are, Solomon's Key is what is called for.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Life is fired at us point blank.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt
~ Darynda Jones
Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
~ David Gemmell
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
~ Don Imus
Only cowards hide behind silence.
~ Paulo Coelho
Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.
~ Terry Pratchett
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
~ Thornton Wilder
I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
~ Walter Crane
Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
~ E. Lockhart