Quotes About Confrontation

Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield

Weapons themselves can tempt a man to fight.

Trojans and Achaians, who like wolves sprang upon one another, with man against man in the onfall.

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

There are no binding oaths between men and lions— wolves and lambs can enjoy no meeting of the minds— they are all bent on hating each other to the death. So with you and me. No love between us. No truce till one or the other falls and gluts with blood

With that he hurled and Athena drove the shaft and it split the archer's nose between the eyes— it cracked his glistening teeth, the tough bronze cut off his tongue at the roots, smashed his jaw and the point came ripping out beneath his chin. He pitched from his car, armor clanged against him, a glimmering blaze of metal dazzling round his back—

Do not in this way, skilled though you be, godlike Achilles, try to trick me

their aggression reaches330 the iron sky.

Sprachs, und entsandte den speer; ihn richtete Pallas Athene Grad am aug in die nas; und die schimmernden zähne durchdrang sie; Auch die zung and der wurzel entschnitt das gewaltie erz ihm, Daß die stürmende Spitze am unteren Kinne hinausfuhr. (Ilias; fünfter Gesang V. 290-293)

You stupid food! -Athene to Ares

strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?

If it's the two men in suits with Bibles then he slams it shut to make sure not even one of their words enters into the hall.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Kill the body and the head will die.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.

Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!

That gin-soaked little Nazi from the Gazette got pissed off when you didn't doff your hat for the national anthem," Burgin explained. "He kept bitching about you to the guy in charge of the press box, then he got that asshole who works for him all cranked up and they started talking about having you arrested." "Jesus creeping shit," I muttered. "Now I know why I got out of sportswriting.

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.