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Quotes About Confrontation

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
after Hal had refused to open the Pod Bay door.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction, Nicole said to herself. Not even when confronted by infinity.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hogyan háborgathat bárki is egy két kilométer hosszú, fekete hasábot? És vajon milyen formában közölné a rosszallását?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You're too late. She's my wife. No, she's your widow. His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sterndale sprang to his feet. "I believe that you are the devil himself!" he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Lie number one," said the old man; "I never saw either of them until two months ago, and I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!" "What he says is true," said Carruthers.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You threatened to tell his girlfriend he'd been involved with you? (Hunter) No, I threatened to tell Brittany he made a pass at me if he didn't help. He's a slimeball I wouldn't let touch my dead philodendron. (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. When we refuse to see the truth that lies before us because facing it is too hard and scary for us. Because when we acknowledge that light, then we see the monsters the dark no longer hides and we are honor bound to do something to stop them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not your fight, Jack. (Steele) That never stopped me before. Uncle Cam never cared if I had an issue with someone or not before they had me take their head off. (Jack)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't want to hurt you, Dar. Either get out of my way or I'm going through you. Xev
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And for a brief moment I envisioned myself snarling Yes, ha ha! And I minced fifty more like him, so you'd better run!
~ Sherwood Smith
He mounted behind me and we started off, while I indulged myself with the image of grabbing that stick and conking him right across his smiling face.
~ Sherwood Smith
I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me," Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry. The Marquis bowed low over his horse's withers, every line of his body indicative of irony. Galdran's face flushed dark purple. "I confess," Shevraeth drawled, "we had a small wager on whether you would have the courage to face us.
~ Sherwood Smith
He turned down the passageway to their little parlor, and sent the door swinging open with a crash. Losing my temper will not help, he said, and gave the door a vicious kick.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hugh Crain," Theodora said, "you were a dirty old man, and you made a dirty old house and if you can still hear me from anywhere I would like to tell you to your face that I genuinely hope you will spend eternity in that foul horrible picture and never stop burning for a minute.
~ Shirley Jackson
She is hysterical," said Mrs. Halloran. "Slap her quite firmly in the face.
~ Shirley Jackson
Second, I wish all my enemies would burst from the bellyful your last letter gave me.
~ Sholom Aleichem