Quotes About Confrontation

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.

Boys. It's late. If you're not gonna kill me, what do you want?

Speak Truth to Power.

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.

My karma ran over your dogma.

Every man's sword was against his fellow.

Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

There is no discharge in that war.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?

Yes, Officer, I did see the speed limit sign. I just didn't see you.

Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

Eyeball to eyeball.

Hannibal ad portas [Hannibal is at the gates]!

As pinturas, e muito mais tarde, os textos serviram de marcos e de pausas para reflexão, alertas, divertimento e prazer. Ajudaram a clarificar o que deveriam ter sido confrontos confusos com a realidade. Ajudaram a deslindar e a organizar o conhecimento. Proporcionaram um caminho para a compreensão do que significam as coisas.

I said, smiling very wide and droogie: 'Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.' And then we started.

As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.

How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.

If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill.