Quotes About Confrontation

She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.

Refusing to be intimidated, after all, didn't mean deliberately asking for trouble.

You happened to me, she told him, her voice more fatigued than embittered. You came out of a grubby sixth-rate farm on a tenth-rate planet, and destroyed my life. - Mara Jade

But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.

lawyers and soldiers came out of the same expensive box. If you couldn't settle things without them, you weren't going to like what it cost to settle things with them.

There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to be identified, faced, and vanquished.

Doesn't matter who it is I'll friggin break 'em -Grimmjow jaggerjaques

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

Che razza di mostro si è infilato in casa mia? Che tutti gli dèi e le dee mi faccian morire di mala morte se io non la faccio crepare di fame e di sete e di freddo

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

What am I supposed to do about you?

but the point of any deployment was not the movement and placement of forces, but the way the forces could be brought to bear against a potential enemy.

The three wolves didn't know that the sheep herd had three dogs in it. Big ones.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ? Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

They did everything but slap each other, and finally they did that. What postponed the inevitable were loves forlorn and a very young girl in too tight clothes tapping on the screen door.

He fought her the way a coward fights a man--with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth.

You think you so cute!" I swung at her and missed, hitting Pecola in the face. Furious at my clumsiness, I threw my notebook at her, but it caught her in the small of her velvet back, for she had turned and was flying across the street against traffic. Safe on the other side, she screamed at us, "I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute!

truth is trouble.

Ajax blinked. Then he looked swiftly into her face. In her words, in her voice, was a sound he knew well. For the first time he saw the green ribbon. He looked around and saw the gleaming kitchen and the table set for two and detected the scent of the nest. Every hackle on his body rose, and he knew that very soon she would, like all of her sisters before her, put him to the death-knell question Where you been? His eyes dimmed with a mild and momentary regret.

Knowing his label provided him with both comfort and courage, he believed that to name an evil was to neutralize if not annihilate it.

We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

Don't forget.../ ...When you gaze into the darkness.../ The darkness gazes back into you.

That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you