Quotes About Confrontation

Men. It's all about saving face. Every argument, every duel, every battle, every war. You would level a world to keep from being made to look a fool. And so you shall.

Shall I loose the fleas on my head to rend your worthless flesh from your jellied bones?

The creature spun, tumbling, then twisted round to face its attacker, rage blazing in its skull.

He would have liked to call the man he had been a stranger now, but the world had a way of spinning unnoticed, until what he'd thought he'd turned his back on suddenly faced him again.

The woman moved in a blur, one elbow driving backwards into the assassin's stomach. She twisted round and drove her knee into the man's crotch. A shout burst from Kalam as he reeled back a step, then fell to the ground with a heavy thump.

Laughing, he'd flung dense clouds of earth and stone skyward to blind them.

In proclamation, one defines his enemy for his enemy".

Rallick followed this by driving his other knife into Orr's chest.

You don't destroy an omen by fighting it. No, you do the opposite. You swallow it whole.

Onos T'oolan faced southeast. And then set out. He had a people to kill.

Truth is a pressure, and I see us all shying away. But, my friends, from truth there can be no escape.

It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.

Kalam knelt beside Quick Ben, studied the man's face for a moment, the slack expression, the closed eyes. Then he slapped the wizard. Hard. Quick Ben swore, then glared up at the assassin. 'I should crush you like a bug, Kalam.' 'Right now, I think,' he rumbled in reply, 'a bug's fart might blow you right off this ship, Quick.

Worm says fuck you, Assail!

He swung a hard, challenging gaze to the sergeant.

See this weapon in my hands? One false move and you're nothing but atoms!' Spark tilted its head. 'Confusion! Spark already is nothing but atoms! So is Klang Intruder!

I do not want to meet my evil self,' said Pearl. Draconus glanced across at him. 'Who does?

Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I'll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his own ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths.

Tene Baralta's mailed hand was a blur as it flashed out and struck Mebra, the spurred links raking deep gashes across the man's face. Blood spattered the wall. The spy reeled back, hands to his torn face.

even if it meant pulling Oponn kicking and screaming on to this plain to face whatever lay ahead.

Your days are numbered, you little ignorant peckerwoods." Monty Schaffer stood with feet spread, fists tightly balled on his hips—an angry man ready to strike. But instead of striking, he unholstered

Mom told me that. When someone is acting inappropriately, don't normalize it. Make it clear to everyone that you are not okay with the behavior.

What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?" "Sightseeing. Your turn." He shivered. "No, that's all right.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.