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Quotes About Confrontation

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
~ Juliet Marillier
But there are two sides to every fight. It starts from something small, a chance remark, a gesture made lightly. It grows from there. Both sides can be unjust. Both can be cruel.
~ Juliet Marillier
Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder.
~ Juliet Marillier
You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.
~ Juliet Marillier
Sometimes, when the past catches up, you just can't stop yourself.
~ Juliet Marillier
But when Kaname asked: Would you like to separate, then? Misako answered: Would you? They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face with his own weakness.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
increasingly weak. Then, half a century after Lord Macartney's failed mission, the closed door was pushed ajar by Britain through the Opium
~ Jung Chang
Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.
~ K?b? Abe
AÅŸa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant.
~ K?b? Abe
imagining the scene when I would confront you who were the symbol of "the others.
~ K?b? Abe
For a mere package of cigarettes, I was putting up a struggle as if I were in combat with some monster.
~ K?b? Abe
The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.
~ Karen Essex
Terstan. Who? Who would do such a thing? He will kill him, Abramm. Just
~ Karen Hancock
I wish I could tell you that I leapt to my feet anyway, snake be dammed. Or that I wrestled the snake and then fought my opponent. But I saw the icy cold disdain in the snake's eyes and did the only prudent thing I could - I froze in my place. After a long few moments, the grew bored and slithered away, as had my opponent. Yet I felt that I had won, for I lived to fight another day.
~ Karen Hawkins
Jane?" She lifted her brows. "Yes?" "If you so much as hum one word, I shall stuff one of your gloves into your mouth." "Tsk,tsk."She assumed an exaggerated sad look."It's like that,is it?
~ Karen Hawkins
Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.
~ Karen Hawkins
Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.
~ Karen Hawkins
The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." They
~ Karen Joy Fowler
shoved him backwards out of her lab, pulling its door closed behind them.
~ Karen Miller
kneel Your Grace, he said curtly, Unless you presume to tell a man of God that he may also fuck himself? Rhian nearly lost her balance, coming off the last dais step.
~ Karen Miller
You deal with the bitch, I'll deal with the ditch.
~ Karen Rose
Touch me again, chakaar, and I'll ram this into your carotid artery." "I haven't got one." "Then I'll have to keep stabbing you until I find somewhere else that bleeds copiously.
~ Karen Traviss
have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.
~ Karen Traviss
injustice was never more tragic than when you found it knocking at your own door.
~ Karin Slaughter