Quotes About Confrontation

The Marathas soon detected their movements, surrounded them and fell on the column at first light: 350 were dead before noon. Egerton had no option but to surrender, and six days later signed the humiliating Treaty of Wadgaon. With this he handed over Raghunath Rao and several senior Company hostages and agreed to give up a swathe of Company territory to the Marathas.

Little wonder that the British were soon being reviled in the Surat streets 'with the names of Ban-chude* and Betty-chude† which my modest language will not interpret'.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Murderer of Vuka and Jumadi, see now how Tugars can die.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?

Hereticorum sententias prodidisse est superasse—to have expounded the doctrines of heretics is to have overcome them, saith Hieron. Unfold them, or bring them and the word face to face, and, like Cain, they hang down their head; they are put to shame.

Church doctrine had it otherwise: Earth was at the center. The conflict between Galileo's telescope and Church dogma brought disaster to Galileo, but in the end the telescope prevailed, and the dramatic story of the confrontation taught Galileo's most important lesson.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

a famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.

that people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

The inquest proceeded smoothly, evidence showing that Cork had acted reasonably. But the county attorney, Warren Evans, who was a crony of Robert Parrant, asked Cork a question that tilted the whole world of the inquest. "Why did you shoot six times, Sheriff? Shoot even after the man was down?

Illidan glared at the Broken and his pathetic allies. "You are not prepared." A

Don't face up to your problems with honesty and courage. That's just crazy. You're better off burying them under an avalanche of sarcasm.

Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.

Who will bell the cat?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face. —DIOGENES THE CYNIC

What's the matter?" said the foul old man. "Birdie got your tongue?

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.