Quotes About Confrontation

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary.

Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn't enough to stop the bastard.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail.

Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.

Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

You're a vile human being," said Pettle, the words spilling from his mouth before he could stop them.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

Their revolvers are drawn, but they won't fire. They're just here as backdrop. The fire department is here too, as are the ETMs, but there isn't much they can do either. They know the rules. This is clearly out of their scope, and these guys are out of their league. They're basically here for crowd control. Besides, have you ever seen an ETM jump into a pool of acid to rescue two costumed teenagers? Do you even know what those guys get paid?

Well, if I'm not mistaken, if I take your king's

We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

You should have died when I killed you.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

Touch her," he said in Scott's ear, his voice low and threatening, "and it'll be the biggest regret of your life.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.